Should Chicago be worried? Obama is losing to Romney in polls of swing state voters.

Today in Stupid: Conservatives in the Kansas state legislature pass a bill to triple-check that they accidentally don’t fund any abortions — and then also pass a law designed to keep Muslims from imposing Sharia law on Topeka.

Can geo-engineering reverse global warming — or will it make things much, much worse?

Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s dentist dad.

Did the CIA just foil another Al Qaeda plot to blow up an airplane?

Mitt Romney’s war cabinet: literally the same guys who brought you the last disaster.

Hillary Clinton’s next big task: convincing India to join the Iran sanctions.