Before the brothers went to war against Obama, they almost destroyed each other...

The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world's foremost card virtuoso against its premier numbers wizard...

False claims go unchallenged, racial fears are stoked -- and political scientists discover it helps GOP at polls...

In honor of Masturbation Month, Salon talks to the pioneer of self-pleasuring who coined this quirky holiday...

Should students about to read The Great Gatsby be forewarned about "a variety of scenes that reference gory, abusive and misogynistic violence," as one Rutgers student proposed? Would any book that addresses racism -- like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Things Fall Apart -- have to be preceded by a note of caution? Do sexual images from Greek mythlogy need to come with a view-beware label? Colleges across the country this spring have been wrestling with student requests for what are known as "trigger warnings"...

Barbara Walters, who is retiring after 50 years in television today, has had the kind of career that sends writers to their thesauruses, scrabbling around to find another synonym for "legendary" or "pioneering" or "iconic." The scope of her professional life is nearly impossible to sum up coherently. But let's try...

The right-wing media tried to sell Americans on the idea that the antigovernment “Patriots”and militiamen who gathered to block the roundup of Cliven Bundy’s illegally grazing cattle in Nevada were well-meaning lovers of liberty. However, Bundy’s most ardent defenders have revealed themselves to be a volatile collection of hotheaded, paranoid men (and a few women) with big egos and even bigger guns.

The situation at the ranch, where armed militiamen and “Patriots” are camped out, has deteriorated so badly that competing factions apparently drew weapons on one another during heated arguments...

Though famous for their ability to adapt, Darwin's finches – the roughly fourteen species of bird found on Ecuador's Galápagos Islands – cannot always cope with every threat, at least not without some help from humans. One of these threats, the nest fly Philornis downsi, is thought to be greatly contributing to the finches' decline. The adult parasites (which look like houseflies) lay their eggs in the nests of the finches, whose varied bill shapes helped inspire Darwin's theory of evolution. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the nestlings by sucking their blood...

Silicon Valley is finally taking notice of a $750 billion market: baby boomers.

It's always amazing when a United Nations report that has global ramifications comes out with little fanfare. The latest one states that no on will get cancer or die from radiation released from Fukushima, but the fear and overreaction is harming people...