President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria  —  President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Obama's Affordable Care Act Looking a Bit Unaffordable  —  Independent National Journal analysis finds premiums higher under Obamacare as employers weigh dropping coverage.  —  Republicans have long blamed President Obama's signature health care initiative for increasing insurance costs, dubbing it the “Unaffordable Care Act.”

Donald Rumsfeld to W.H.: Justify Syria attack  —  Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Obama administration has not yet justified an attack on Syria.  —  “There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect …

Boehner, Cantor Turned Down Chance to Speak at March Anniversary (Updated)  —  Updated 5:23 p.m. |  Speaker John A. Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the House's two most senior Republicans, were invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington — but declined.

‘The Most Dangerous Negro’  —  The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called “one of its biggest surveillance operations in history.”  The speech even moved the head …

Trump University students ‘cheated’ after paying $35,000 to learn secrets of real estate business... and only getting a picture taken with a cardboard cut-out of the Donald  — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accused university of encouraging students to pay for expensive, useless seminars

State: Montco same-sex marriage licenses meaningless  —  The Corbett administration said its lawsuit seeking to halt same-sex marriage licenses in Montgomery County “would have no direct effect” on the couples who have already received them.  —  In a brief Wednesday, state attorneys …

Obama is talking America into a war  —  Barack Obama's foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality.  His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity.  He has a glutton's, rather than a gourmet's …

First Term Troubles - Corbett's numbers continue to drop  —  PENNSYLVANIA governors typically encounter trouble in their first terms and the polls reflect that with dipping popularity.  —  It happened to Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, in the late 1990s.  —  It happened to Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, in the mid-2000s.

U.S. fast-food workers plan nationwide strikes over wages … Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fast-food workers across the United States are expected to stage their largest strike to date on Thursday in an almost year-long campaign to raise wages in the service sector.

Zimmerman's Wife Pleads Guilty To Lying To Judge About Bond Funds  —  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman's wife has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury charge for lying during a bail hearing after her husband's arrest.  —  Shellie Zimmerman entered her guilty Wednesday in Seminole County court.

Hate-crime hoaxes and “counter-Trayvonism.”  —  Four “hateful text messages” appeared on the phone of a 16-year-old black student who was running for Student Council president at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, N.J. “We have NEVER and will NEVER have an (n-word) to lead our school …

The risk of taking on Syria  —  Quick strikes rarely achieve enduring political goals — and often produce more costs or unintended consequences than benefits.  —  So the U.S. launches a military strike.  Then what?  —  As the Obama administration and the U.S. military plot military action against Syria …

Norquist: Don't let Limbaugh, Levin moderate 2016 debates  —  Grover Norquist is strongly opposed to letting conservative talk show hosts moderate the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates.  —  Norquist, a conservative leader who heads the anti-taxation Americans for Tax Reform …

Readers on Syria: Stay Out  —  A different red line President Obama could draw.  —  We'll get back to our ongoing American Futures journey later today.  [Please check out the latest installment, this morning from Rapid City, SD.]  —  I'll confess that in our stopover in DC …

ObamaCare for Everything  —  First health, then finance and now higher ed gets a federal fix.  —  Thousands of American higher-education administrators will spend part of Labor Day weekend trying to plumb the meaning of the ideas President Obama dropped on them last week to “reform” the American college and university system.