- LEADING OFF: Kluber’s on a roll, Burnett vs Harvey
 - Quotations in the News
 - US officials: Iran enters Iraqi fight for key oil refinery
 - A closer look at Clinton email censored prior to its release
 - “Perilously close to propaganda”: How Fox News shilled for Iraq War, and Jon Stewart returned sanity
 - Elizabeth Warren is winning: How the progressive icon is remaking politics — without running for president
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson gets democracy all wrong: We don’t deserve the one we get — we get the one elites give us
 - Lou Barlow: I got really lucky
 - These guys are painfully wrong about Islam: 3 things that every anti-Muslim zealot needs to admit
 - Glenn Greenwald, I’m sorry: Why I changed my mind on Edward Snowden
 - The power grab that destroyed American politics: How Newt Gingrich created our modern dysfunction
 - Viral rewind: Rand Paul said he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — and Rachel Maddow eviscerated him
 - David Foster Wallace vs. Jonathan Franzen: Finding truth and authenticity in an age of irony
 - London as neoliberal theme park: The Platform 9 ¾ economy and the Tories’ shocking victory
 - “The party of white people”: How the Tea Party took over the GOP, armed with all the wrong lessons from history
 - Our dogs can read our minds: The new neuroscience of animal brains and understanding
 - 7 ways Bernie Sanders could transform America
 - Russia is facing a cancer-suicide epidemic
 - How to talk to kids about religion: Spiritual multiculturalism is absolutely essential
 - What I learned in the writers’ room: These guys don’t know s*** about pleasing a woman!
 - Ryan O’Connell on Thought Catalog, trolling & the Millennial angst tipping point: “The more you write about your personal life, the less you have one”