Features + Profiles

• Scott Brown, Former Senator Turned Bike Mechanic, Wants to Ride a Fixie (GQ)

• The GQ Guide to Protecting Your Bike from Thieves (GQ)

• The Vapologist Will See You Now: Inside New York's First E-Cigarette Bar (The Week)

• Approval By Numbers: How Obama Compares To Past Presidents (Talking Points Memo)

• The Boston Bruins, a Stanley Cup run, and the echoes of tragedy (The Week)

• What the Boston Marathon means to a Bostonian (The Week)

• Jackie Robinson's pen pal talks baseball, race, and No. 42 (The Week)

• How the NFL covered up its devastating head-injury problem (The Week)

Politics

Elections

• Mitt Romney in 2016?

• Hillary Clinton's non-campaign for president

• Why 2016 is ripe for an independent presidential candidate

• How the Tea Party Lost the 2014 Midterms

• Donald Trump's never-ending fictional campaign for office

Commentary

• 2013: The Year Gay Marriage Won

• The Farce of Paul Ryan, Serious Man

• Republicans Won Nothing and Lost Everything in the Government Shutdown

• The War on Women is back

• Republicans are losing all credibility on ObamaCare

• Marco Rubio's incredible vanishing act

News Analysis

• Obama's Confusing, Winding Response to Syria

• These Powerful Countries Still Support Egypt's Military Regime

• What Does a 'Successful' Iran Deal Look Like for Obama?

• How the Tea Party is winning the GOP fight over ObamaCare

• Marco Rubio's incredible vanishing act

• How John Boehner learned to stop worrying and hate the Tea Party

• Why you shouldn't expect a Tea Party primary wave in 2014

• How the government shutdown is tearing the GOP apart

• The government shutdown: What's next for Obama and the GOP?

• The shutdown endgame: Democrats turn the tables on the GOP

• Why liberals are slamming Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

• How the GOP painted itself into a corner on the shutdown

• Why even red-state Democrats are jumping on the gay marriage bandwagon

• This is the chart Obama will use when he runs for re-election

• How Antonin Scalia helped open the door to gay marriage nationwide

• Unpopular Freshman GOP Governors Could Help Obama’s Reelection Bid

• Meet Larry Klayman, the libertarian activist who could upend the NSA

• Confirmed: This is the worst Congress ever

Policy

• The Politics of Fracking

• Supreme Court finds Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional

• Supreme Court strikes down a central pillar of the Voting Rights Act

• Why liberals are going after Facebook

• Immigration reform: The Senate and the House are on a collision course

• The sleeper issue that could help Democrats in 2014

• How the U.S.'s Obsession With Cars is Hurting the Middle Class

• Sneckdowns: How Snowstorms Can Teach Us to Build Better Roads

• The Sluggish Economy's Hidden Toll on Women

• Yes, money can buy you happiness

• If Obama is Such a Socialist, Then Why Are Government Jobs Disappearing?

• Is Greek Yogurt Killing the Environment?

• Why States Should Stop Limiting the Alcohol Content in Your Beer

• ObamaCare's surprising demographic pitfall: Young people

• How to fix gerrymandering and stop future shutdowns

Sports

• Obama’s Cuba Move Could Be a Home Run for Baseball

• Stop telling athletes to 'shut up and play'

• On Ray Rice, the NFL Should Not Be the Final Arbiter of Moral Justice

• Yes, Baseball is Boring. That's Exactly What Makes it so Great.

• Adrian Peterson and Our Misguided Debate About Spanking

• Baseball's New Secret to Success: Don't Strike Out

• Clayton Kershaw's Record Payday is Bad News For Free Agents

• Why Sochi's Terrible Bathrooms Are the Perfect Symbol For Putin's Olympics

• March Madness is a Progressive's Worst Nightmare

• 18 athletes who refused to visit the White House

• How to convince your boss it's OK to watch March Madness at work

• May the best team not win: Baseball's winningest clubs rarely win the World Series

• The worst Hall of Famers at each position, according to sabermetrics

• NFL settles its concussion lawsuit for less than a tenth of its annual revenue

• How much money has Texas A&M made off Johnny Manziel?

Culture

• Will a Bunch of Terrible Craft Beer Spoil the Craft Beer Industry?

• Stop Hating on Cyclists

• The Boston Red Sox Beards: A Semi-Factual Guide to the Team's Best Facial Hair Styles

• NFL Playoff Predictions, by Ferocity of Mascot

• Mariano Rivera's Retirement Gifts, Ranked

• A Brief History of Why Everyone Hates Alex Rodriguez

• 12 Absurd Super Bowl Prop Bets That Can Win You Real Money

• 6 'Obvious' Reasons Joe Biden Might Not Run For President

• South Carolina 'Coon Hunter' License Plates Not Offensive, Says Raccoon Hunter

• What is krokodil? The flesh-rotting drug comes to the U.S.