Obama's Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot  —  WASHINGTON — Confronted with evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, President Obama now finds himself in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.

China Is Censoring Jokes About Its Propaganda Machine's Penis-Shaped HQ  —  The People's Daily is the main state-owned newspaper of China's communist party, and everyone was pretty psyched about the paper's new Beijing headquarters.  The building is massive, imposing, and, uh, currently shaped like a colossal penis.

An Unqualified Apology  —  During a recent question-and-answer session at a conference in California, I made comments about John Maynard Keynes that were as stupid as they were insensitive.  —  I had been asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation “In the long run we are all dead.”

NRA's LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns’  —  NBC's Kasie Hunt reports from Houston, Texas on what's been said at this year's National Rifle Association convention.  —  In a fiery speech Saturday before cheering supporters, the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre took …

King: ‘Very difficult to believe’ Boston bombing suspects acted alone  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the former chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Sunday that he did not believe the suspects in last month's Boston Marathon bombings acted alone.

Democratic South Carolina chair defends Nikki Haley barb  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, imploring party activists Friday night to defeat this state's Indian-American governor, predicted next year's Democratic standard-bearer would “send Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from.”

Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change.  So what to make of this year's tornado drought?  —  As informed citizens, we need to be careful about conflating weather, climate change and natural disasters.  —  Weather (i.e. the extreme cold we're having in Texas this spring) is weather.

Why I Froze My Eggs (And You Should, Too)  —  Amid all the talk of ‘leaning in’ and ‘having it all,’ we've ignored the most powerful gender-equalizer.  —  Between the ages of 36 and 38, I spent nearly $50,000 to freeze 70 eggs in the hope that they would help me have a family in my mid-40s, when my natural fertility is gone.