Would Democrats amend Constitution to stop the Koch brothers?  —  HARRY REID CAMPAIGN FINANCE 2014 ELECTIONS FREEDOM OF SPEECH KOCH BROTHERS CONSTITUTION  —  It's no longer news when Majority Leader Harry Reid takes to the floor of the Senate to denounce the Koch brothers.

VA Secretary Eric Shinseki needs to go  —  Eric Shinseki has served his country honorably as a twice-wounded officer in Vietnam, as Army chief of staff and finally as President Obama's secretary of veterans affairs.  —  But his maddeningly passive response to the scandal roiling his agency suggests …

SunTrust Reverses Decision On Conservative Benham Brothers  —  After an uproar from conservative customers, SunTrust Banks announced Friday afternoon that the decision to end its relationship with real estate entrepreneurs David and Jason Benham had been reversed.

Don't Want A Torture Facilitator to Get $35K for a Bad Speech?  Why Are You A Bigot?  —  The only way I can explain Timothy Egan's column yesterday is that he was pitching two or three different columns about the commencement speech issue that all the pundits are talking about this week …

Federal health-care subsidies may be too high or too low for more than 1 million Americans  —  The government may be paying incorrect subsidies to more than 1 million Americans for their health plans in the new federal insurance marketplace and has been unable so far to fix the errors …

What ‘Hard Work U’ Can Teach Elite Schools  —  'We don't do debt here,' says College of the Ozarks President Jerry C. Davis.  —  Point Lookout, Mo.  —  Looking for the biggest bargain in higher education?  I think I found it in this rural Missouri town, 40 miles south of Springfield, nestled in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.

Should Paid ‘Menstrual Leave’ Be a Thing?  —  Some countries mandate a legal right to leave for women during their periods.  Is that reverse sexism or the right thing to do?  —  For most American women beyond the age of high school gym class, “I've got my period” isn't considered much of an excuse for anything.

Jill Abramson, ousted New York Times editor, pulls out of attending Brandeis commencement  —  WALTHAM, Mass. — Jill Abramson, the recently ousted executive editor of The New York Times, has backed out of attending Brandeis (BRAN'-dys) University's commencement.

Utah GOP Lawmaker: Bring Back Firing Squad Executions  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution.  And he plans to bring back that option for criminals sentenced to death in his state.

Lawmakers seek to kill Pentagon contracts with Russian firms  —  The Pentagon would be forbidden from using U.S. tax dollars on contracts with the Russian arms dealer Rosoboronexport under a new, bipartisan bill.  —  The Russian Weapons Embargo Act of 2014 is the latest of several efforts …

Michelle Obama: Talk about race  —  Marking the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, First Lady Michelle Obama said on Friday that racial and other prejudices still plague the nation and she called on young people to lead the way forward.

GOP war revived in Georgia  —  Part of an occasional series on the hottest races of the 2014 midterm election.  —  ROME, Ga. — The once-peaceful Georgia GOP Senate primary has devolved into an all-out brawl in its final days, ripe with charges of sexism, arrogance, lying, distortion and even …