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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/opinion/america-in-2013-as-told-in-charts.html Looking back on 2013, many of the economic and political themes seemed familiar: a weak economy. Growing income inequality. Gridlock in Washington. Partisan wrangling

http://nyti.ms/1f3ose8 BARRY, Ill. — The byline of Dick Metcalf, one of the country’s pre-eminent gun journalists, has gone missing. It has been removed from Guns

http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-31/are-the-techno-riche-really-ruining-san-francisco-yes-says-rebecca-sol By Brad Wieners December 31, 2013 6:15 AM EST The author who has best traced the pre- Hewlett-Packard origins of Silicon Valley (in her

http://nyti.ms/Knlwe9 Gary Gensler squeezed into a Washington auditorium last month, mingling with the 300 guests at his farewell party and basking in the attention as

NPR – January 1, 2014 It’s a quandary of food production: The same drive for efficiency that lowers the cost of eating also can damage

http://nyti.ms/1fU2YNj In 2012 President Obama, ever hopeful that reason would prevail, predicted that his re-election would finally break the G.O.P.’s “fever.” It didn’t.  But the

http://m.cjr.org/164390/show/99b23b973f5120eccfd6604969ffc575/? Posted on Thursday Dec 19th at 11:00am By Brendan Nyhan How should the United States choose among the difficult tradeoffs it faces in setting

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/ Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there

by Elizabeth Shogren NPR – December 28, 2013 The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the

http://nyti.ms/19p4H8X Signs of the energy business are inescapable in and around Houston — the pipelines, refineries and tankers that crowd the harbor, and the gleaming