An excerpt from "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach.

Barack Obama isn't the only Democratic candidate to get a real boost from Charlotte

He’s either forgotten or just won’t admit how Bill Clinton actually balanced the budget

MTV's traveling "Choose or Lose" vehicle brings politics -- along with music! celebrity! glamour! -- to America's disillusioned youth

Derided by the mainstream press and taking on Reagan at the height of his popularity, the freshman senator battled to reveal one of America's ugliest foreign policy secrets.

Will Massachusetts voters throw out a Republican senator they like personally because they hate his party?

Is there a difference between slasher films and gory tales from the E.R.? A spate of tell-all books by doctors gives us what we crave: Gruesomeness with a purpose.

Steven Curtis had claimed: "Virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember . . . was committed by Democrats”

The Libertarian presidential candidate has had a gaffe-filled campaign — so many gaffes it is hard to count

" A preservation project can also be about more than just the food"

His new ad is a textbook demonstration of how to make something out of nothing

Maybe it's time to start feeling bad for the Libertarian nominee. Maybe

The Halloween-loving novelist, now 50, suddenly finds mortal crises in the holiday's every image

Johnson ditched the GOP in 2012, wants to legalize pot and is an amazing athlete