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Investigators review erratic behavior of DC gunman

Eric Tucker
Aaron Alexis reportedly visited two hospitals in the weeks before the Monday morning rampage

Yellen praised for pressing Fed on unemployment

CAROLINE SALAS GAGE, STEVE MATTHEWS
Labor leaders are supporting Janet Yellen for the top job at the Fed

Who wrote a worse column today, Maureen Dowd or Thomas Friedman?

Alex Pareene
Pick your poison: Dull or snide? Facile or repetitive? Pink hair or weird cats?

Cutbacks to the stimulus hang over Fed meeting

DOMINIC RUSHE IN NEW YORK
At a Wednesday night press conference, chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to announce a "tapering" of the stimulus

Yellen seen as likely Fed nominee after Summers exit

JOSHUA ZUMBRUN, CATARINA SARAIVA
In a survey of economists, the Fed's vice chair came in first

Census bureau: Women earn $11,500 less than men annually

DOMINIC RUSHE, The Guardian
New data finds that women in full-time work are still paid 77 cents for every dollar men earn.

Aaron Alexis reportedly had been hearing voices

Associated Press
The Navy Yard shooter, who legally owned his guns, was not stripped of security clearance

Progressive group aims to oust Orson Scott Card from new position at UNC

Prachi Gupta
The homophobic writer, now a board member of UNC-TV, in May compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler

Madonna’s Reddit AMA: The strangest moments

Daniel D'Addario
The pop singer seems annoyed by fans' questions, curses at them during an online chat

GOP brass plays party for fools

Brian Beutler
Top brass Republicans believe they can manipulate rank-and-file members into abandoning their favorite passions

No, Oprah and Barack can’t fix racism: Stop celebrating “how far we’ve come!”

Brittney Cooper
Yes, Black stars break down barriers -- but this week showed they don't signal broad systemic changes. Here's why

Democrats now pushing for Yellen as Fed Chair

DAN ROBERTS IN WASHINGTON, DOMINIC RUSHE IN NEW YORK
Senator Elizabeth Warren gives full support to Vice Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen

Why Larry Summers was not too big to fail

Joan Walsh
Five years after the Wall Street crash, an unapologetic deregulation fan (and Citigroup consultant!) pays a price

Joe Biden: Gay marriage “the issue of our day”

Katie McDonough
Biden delivered his remarks in Iowa, in what could be the "unofficial kickoff of his third presidential campaign"

7 crazy right wing statements from just last week

Janet Allon
Ted Cruz wishes America had 100 more senators like Jesse Helms. And more

“The Newsroom”: A proposal, an apology, a debate about the GOP

Daniel D'Addario
In the season finale, a pair gets engaged and Barack Obama is elected president

Summers withdraws name from Fed chair consideration

Associated Press
The former Treasury Secretary had faced mounting opposition over Wall Street ties

Inside the conservative brain: What explains their wiring?

Avi Tuschman
Neuroscience can help us understand the strangest of birds: The modern conservative. They really do think different

Obama: Russia doesn’t share American ‘values’ In Syria

Associated Press
Despite U.S.-Russian agreement over chemical weapons handover, president says Putin is "protecting" Assad

Mann and Ornstein: “Brighter future for politics and policy requires a different Republican Party”

Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
The Republicans have become a party beholden to zealots -- with little respect for science, facts or compromise

5 biggest ways the media misled America this month

Jonathan Bernstein
We just had one of our nation's most important foreign policy debates in years -- and the media made us dumber

Let’s honor Larry Summers’ disastrous record: Name him Fed chair today!

Alex Pareene
Let's celebrate the anniversary of the financial crisis by rewarding one of the people responsible for it

Kerry testing Russia on Syria weapons

Associated Press
The plan is to figure out how to secure large quantities of deadly weapons in a war zone

It’s time for credulous financial watchdogs to cash in

Lauren Kyger, Alison Fitzgerald, John Dunbar
Former regulators profit from their experience with jobs, book deals and speaking fees
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