Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

The FCC appears set to “encourage” telephone companies to install robocall blocking technology. Pollsters are panicking.

A woman discharged from the Marine Corps for violating multiple direct orders is fighting to the highest military court.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

The final episode airs tonight. How will Matt Weiner will wrap it up?

The gang at The Week are surprised that “Only jurors who were open to the death penalty were chosen for the Tsarnaev trial.”

A five-time heavyweight champion has beaten a rich politician in a bizarre charity event.

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first truly-elected president, has been sentenced to death by the government which ousted him in a coup.

Ray Mabus is trying to make serving in the Navy and Marine Corps more attractive to women.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Most managers work beyond 9-to-5.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Carly Fiorina, who flopped at Hewlett-Packard and in her lone previous political campaign, wants to be the leader of the free world.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

49 “experts in governance and democracy” to call for nonsensical reforms to the presidential debates.

A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.

“Tanking” to improve draft position has plagued the NBA for years. The solution is obvious.

The former CIA Director received no jail time and a nuisance-level fine in exchange for a guilty plea to espionage charges.

The press corps is already bored.

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

WaPo’s “Top Christie ally defects to Bush” buries the lede.

Norway is moving to all-digital radio.

The “racism” debate brought about by Barack Obama in 2000 is getting a spin-off.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

I’m not sure this is a concern that rises to the level of an article at The Atlantic.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge is creating a scandal where none exists.

A federal judge has ordered the people of California to foot the $100,000 bill for sexual reassignment surgery for someone serving a life sentence for murder.

The US economy added 126,000 jobs, much less than the guess of 244,000.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

Trevor Noah will be the next host of The Daily Show. Who’s Trevor Noah? Exactly.

A sad, complicated story.

President George W. Bush had a running battle with the CIA throughout his eight years in office. Now, they’ve given him an award.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

You should stop at three drinks. But you can stop there more than once.

Alec MacGillis argues for Slate that “Veterans Should Pay Taxes Like Everyone Else.” I agree!

Elton John is leading a boycott against Dolce & Gabbana.

A headline I did not expect to see, courtesy the Army Times: “Dakota Meyer engaged to Bristol Palin.”

Ubiquitous tracking isn’t all bad.

A brutal assessment of Chris Christie’s presidential chances.

The Atlantic’s Alan Taylor has 50 photos from 50 years ago.