Chuck Todd Splits US Into ‘Starbucks Nation’ And ‘Chick-Fil-A Country’ (VIDEO)  —  “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Sunday described the 2014 midterm elections as a battle between “Starbucks nation” and “Chick-Fil-A country.”  —  He split the U.S. into the Democratic urban areas …

Grand Illusion in Syria  —  ACROSS years of war and at an extraordinary cost, the United States built an army that was supposed to prevent jihadists from gaining a sanctuary in the heart of the Middle East.  It had American-trained leaders, American-made weaponry and 250,000 men under arms …

Why is Thomas Piketty's 700-page book a bestseller?  —  Thomas Piketty is a French economist whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has swept American discourse.  Four experts - Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, Stephanie Kelton and Emanuel Derman - take on why that is

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Landrieu helps out with keg stand  —  Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was spotted helping a man do a keg stand at a Louisiana State University tailgating event on Saturday.  —  A photo from the event appears to show Landrieu—one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents this year …

Vile ad bounces off McSally, sticks to Gabby Giffords  —  Our View: Gabby Giffords never resorted to the squalid campaigning this ad represents.  So, why is her group?  —  CONNECT  —  Do you know what you're doing?  —  That's our question to the Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC …

Lawsuit: Student ‘bait’ was raped  —  (CNN) — It's an unimaginable horror.  A 14-year-old girl with special needs allegedly was raped at school after a teacher's aide persuaded her to act as bait to catch an accused sexual predator, a fellow student.  —  “It has essentially devastated her life …

At Climate March in New York, a Clarion Call for Action  —  Under leaden skies, throngs of demonstrators stretching as far as the eye could see moved through Midtown Manhattan late Sunday morning, chanting their demands for action on climate change.  —  With drums and tubas, banners and floats …

Bill Bratton: Inside the terror threat  —  ISIS and a host of other groups present a more complex set of dangers than Al Qaeda once did  —  Images emerging from the Middle East of beheadings and mass executions by the radical Islamic extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are profoundly troubling.

Kansas gubernatorial candidate addresses 1990s strip club incident  —  In the late 1990s the Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas was getting a lap dance at a strip club when cops raided it in search of drugs, a situation Paul Davis on Saturday described as being “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Castro Valley Winery to Government: Crush Grapes, Not Vintners  —  SHARES  —  “You'll never meet anyone who says, 'I want to be a millionaire.  I think I'll start a winery,'” owner Bill Smyth tells me from his small office over the tasting room of Westover Vineyards, nestled in Palomares Canyon.

Chief Justice Roberts: Scalia, Ginsburg wouldn't be confirmed today (AUDIO)  —  United States Chief Justice John Roberts told a Nebraska audience he worries the partisanship that grips Washington will spill over onto the Supreme Court.  —  Roberts said he's concerned about the other two branches of government.