Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run  —  Vice President Joe Biden is increasingly leaning toward entering the 2016 race, if it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said.

The Fed looks set to make a dangerous mistake  —  Raising rates this year will threaten all of the central bank's major objectives  —  Will the Federal Reserve's September meeting see US interest rates go up for the first time since 2006?  Officials have held out the prospect that it might …

Elizabeth Warren refuses to commit to 2018 Senate run  —  It's “too early” to commit to another term in the Senate, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a Boston television station in an interview aired Sunday.  —  Asked by WBZ-TV's Jon Keller whether she would promise to seeking another term …

A Moveable Glut  —  What caused Friday's stock plunge?  What does it mean for the future?  Nobody knows, and not much.  —  Attempts to explain daily stock movements are usually foolish: a real-time survey of the 1987 stock crash found no evidence for any of the rationalizations economists …

Tracy Morgan Marries Megan Wollover - See the Beautiful Couple!  —  Tracy Morgan is a married man!  —  Fourteen months after a horrific highway crash left him fighting for his life, the comedian wed his long-time fiancée Megan Wollover in an intimate and moving ceremony Sunday night, Morgan's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

Dow futures plummet 400 points as Wall Street preps for steep selloff  —  U.S. stock futures pointed to a sharply lower open Monday after a selloff on Friday that dragged major indexes to four-year lows.  —  U.S. stock index futures screamed lower on Monday, with Dow futures tumbling as much as 400 points …

Why salad is so overrated  —  As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic.  Almonds, for their water use.  Corn, for the monoculture.

Fiorina supporters slam ‘ludicrous’ CNN debate methodology  —  Carly Fiorina supporters are criticizing CNN's debate criteria that could prevent the former Hewlett-Packard CEO from grabbing a spot on the main stage at the second debate despite her surging poll numbers.

Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?  —  What is happening to the Republican Party?  I put that question to Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina and basement-dwelling presidential candidate, who was getting ready to hold a campaign event in Hooksett, New Hampshire.

Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice  —  The billionaire Republican front-runner channels his inner Bernie Sanders.  —  t writerknowles  —  For a moment there, Donald Trump was starting to sound a lot like Bernie Sanders.  —  The billionaire Republican front-runner assailed hedge fund managers …

Police foil plot to carry out ‘mass shooting’ at Pokémon World Championships after gunmen boast of plans on social media  —  By SOPHIE JANE EVANS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM  —  Police have foiled an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at this weekend's Pokémon World Championships …

Crazy Like a Visionary  —  Elon Musk's remarkable career reminds us that individuals matter.  —  Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance (Ecco, 400 pp., $28.99)  —  I am an unlikely fan of Elon Musk, the flamboyant, Steve Jobs-like …

Tech oligarchs tightening their grip on Democrats  —  ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS MORRIS, CONTRIBUTING ARTIST  —  The current state of the Republican Party may seem like a demolition derby, but there's an equally fascinating, if less well-understood, conflict within the Democratic Party.

Burning Down The Field in Order to Save It  —  So, I thought I didn't care about the result of the Hugos, because in making the establishment lose their collective sh*t at the “non approved” nominations, we'd proven our point: that there is a political color bar in SF/F …