Officials: How Edward Snowden Could Hurt the U.S.  —  PIERRE THOMAS (@PierreTABC), MIKE LEVINE (@mlevinereports), JACK DATE (@jackdate), LUIS MARTINEZ (@LMartinezABC) and JACK CLOHERTY (@jjclo) report:  —  As the U.S. intelligence community struggles to complete a damage assessment …

IRS chief: Inappropriate screening was broad  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency said Monday.  —  An internal IRS document obtained …

Immigration reform passes key Senate test in 67-27 vote  —  The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week.  —  Fifteen of the yes votes were Republicans, suggesting supporters …

Justice Alito's Inexcusable Rudeness  —  A justice of the Supreme Court should not act like a high schooler on the bench; when the target is a fellow justice, the offense is even greater.  —  I suspect that the cause of cameras in the Supreme Court suffered a blow on Monday.

Richard Matheson, 1926-2013  —  Tor.com is saddened and staggered to learn of the passing of Richard Matheson, the esteemed author of I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House, the script for the Steven Spielberg film Duel, and many Twilight Zone scripts, among many more works.

Opinion: Supreme Court micromanaging diversity  —  Editor's note: Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University.  She is the author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, and Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey

For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers  —  Customers taunt Lisa Weiss.  “Talk dirty to me,” they joke.  “We know you like it.”  Colleagues refuse to speak with her.  Strangers mock her in nasty online messages.  —  “Clearly she's got mental issues,” declared the latest.

Greenwald: Beltway media types are ‘courtiers to power’  —  Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald yesterday clashed with “Meet the Press” host David Gregory, who'd asked Greenwald the following question: “To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements …

Mitch McConnell Is Either Very Bad at Math or Horribly Disingenuous  —  The Senate minority leader took me to task on Friday.  Unfortunately, he had his facts wrong on virtually every count.  —  Last Friday morning, I attended a ballyhooed speech given by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at AEI …

When Journalists Attack  —  With its rush to compare Obama to Nixon and to overhype any and all scandals, the media is ruining America's ability to engage in nuanced debate, says Jon Favreau.  —  If you saw the news at any point in the last month, chances are that you heard Barack Obama compared …

Afghan forces put down attack on presidential palace: police  —  (Reuters) - Afghan forces put down an early morning attack by Taliban insurgents on the presidential palace and nearby buildings in central Kabul on Tuesday, with police saying all the assailants had been killed after a 90-minute gunfight.

Ralph Nader outlines 2016 plan  —  Ralph Nader insists that he's done with his own presidential races, but he still has some plans for 2016.  —  “I'm going to find at least ten enlightened billionaires or multibillionaires and I'm going to have a criteria.  Have they spoken out about where they think the country is going?

Obama in the doldrums  —  Not yet six months into his second term, Barack Obama's presidency is in a dead zone.  —  A combination of familiar Washington intransigence and a more recent run of bad news and political setbacks have left him with less influence over his circumstances …

Santorum jumps into show business  —  (CNN) - Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is getting into the movie business.  —  The staunch conservative, who also served as a senator from Pennsylvania, was named the chief executive of EchoLight Studios, his political action group said Monday.

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Dyslexia is not a disability, it's a gift |  Sally Gardner  —  So much has changed since I was an undiagnosed dyslexic at school, but its wonders and contradictions remain hard to convey  —  At school I was the outsider, the odd one, the word-blind child who didn't fit in.