The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes  —  Probably most people would agree that the people paid by the U.S. government to regulate Wall Street have had their difficulties.  Most people would probably also agree on two reasons those difficulties seem only to be growing: an ever-more complex financial system …

Democrats' ‘war on women’ falling flat in Colo. Senate race  —  Colorado Democrats are fretting that Sen. Mark Udall's (D-Colo.) “war on women” battle cry against Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) is starting to sound like a broken record.  —  After a series of polls this past month have shown …

Eric Holder's Tenure  —  Eric Holder's tenure marked one of the most divisive and partisan eras of the Justice Department.  From his involvement in the bizarre guns-to-gangs operation ("Fast & Furious"), for which he has been cited for contempt by the House and referred to a federal prosecutor …

Police: FBI looking into Moore beheading after suspect tried to convert others to Islam … MOORE, Okla. - Officials with the Moore Police Department say the FBI is now involved in the investigation related to a brutal attack of workers at a food distribution plant.

Why This Conservative Lawyer Thinks He Can Still Cripple Obamacare  —  The top lawyer arguing a case to overturn Obamacare subsidies believes he can succeed at crippling the law even if it's upheld in every district and appellate court.  —  A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit invalidated the federal exchange subsidies in June.

Ferguson public relations representative was convicted of reckless homicide  —  • By Stephen Deere sdeere@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8116 and Steve Giegerich sgiegerich@post-dispatch.com 314.725.6758  —  Devin Sean James, who is overseeing public relations for Ferguson after the Michael Brown shooting …

FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones  —  FBI Director James B. Comey sharply criticized Apple and Google on Thursday for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices — even when they have valid search warrants.

“American dream” is now a myth: How bad policies and worse ideology ruined us  —  Over the past few years of economic torpor and social despair there's been a lot of discussion about the death of the American dream.  This shouldn't be surprising.  In a time when people feel they can't keep …

The Show-Off Society  —  Liberals talk about circumstances; conservatives talk about character.  —  This intellectual divide is most obvious when the subject is the persistence of poverty in a wealthy nation.  Liberals focus on the stagnation of real wages and the disappearance …

The Golden Bowl  —  Amy Chozick covers Hillary Clinton for the New York Times.  She is an enterprising and dedicated reporter, and many of her stories have annoyed the 2016 presidential frontrunner.  This week Chozick covered a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.  It was her turn to be annoyed.

Why We're Talking About Mitt Romney  —  I've been mostly ignoring the various “Romney 2016!” trial balloons floated by various parties over the last six months or so (including by some of my dear friends, alas), but now that someone as sober and well-informed as Byron York has weighed in with a …

Prospective Republican presidential candidates are promoting religious liberty at home and abroad at a gathering of evangelical conservatives, rebuking an unpopular President Barack Obama while skirting divisive social issues that have tripped up the GOP.  —  The annual Values Voter Summit opened Friday …