Two years ago, propelled by Tea Party rage, Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Today, he proudly proclaims he is the "second-most bipartisan member of the U. S. Senate." But as he tries to survive a challenge in the most important Senate race of the year, will that be enough to save him from Elizabeth Warren?

The future of the written word, and the liberation of James Frey. With space aliens.

The American worker has been getting thrashed for thirty years. Jobs leaving the country, wages flat, his boss getting rich. One coal miner from Pennsylvania knows exactly what to do about it.

He is a constant in a changing world, an emissary from an older America. A self-styled constitutional purist, he has for forty years been a voice in the wilderness. But now he has sparked a movement that has put him at the center of the struggle over what kind of country we want to be. But is America ready for his radical vision?

He's liberal. He's conservative. He's idealistic. He's pragmatic. He's egalitarian. He's the elite of the elite. He's not running for president. But he just might consider a hostile takeover.

In the twelve years since he resigned in defeat and disgrace, he has been carefully plotting his return to power. As 2012 approaches, he has raised as much money as all of his potential rivals combined and sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. But just who is Newton Leroy Gingrich, really? An epic and bizarre story of American power in an unsettled age.

For thirty-six years, Warren Hern has been one of the few doctors in America to specialize in late abortions. George Tiller was another. And when Dr. Tiller was murdered that Sunday in church, Warren Hern became the only one left.

It wasn't supposed to be this way for Joe Biden. President, maybe. And if not, at least he would remain an independent-as-hell senior senator. But vice-president? No way. Unless...

The inventor of the Segway and more now has an idea worth tens of millions of lives. But no one cares. Tracking Lord Dumpling's genius on his seceded island of geekery.

The president asked John Yoo to define torture. He did it. Are Yoo’s “torture memos” one of the most heinous mistakes in American history — or could he have been right?