Bernanke's Successor

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-to-name-yellen-as-federal-reserve-chairman-on-wednesday/2013/10/08/d9a0ac72-306a-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/will-yellen-continue-bernanke-s-policies-W7~TD4fMRpiV2X0etcYMKw.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/business/janet-l-yellen-possible-fed-successor-has-admirers-and-foes.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/business/economy/careers-of-2-fed-contenders-reveal-little-on-regulatory-approach.html


http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/the-fed-contenders-a-reading-list/

Student Loans

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174780/student-debt-crisis-everyones-problem

http://www.salon.com/topic/student_loan_debt/

http://www.salon.com/topic/student_loans/

Affirmative Action

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/us/affirmative-action-decision.html

Immigration Reform

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/21/us/politics/immigration-overview.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/us/politics/immigration-bill-clears-final-hurdle-to-senate-approval.html

Patents and Patients

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/doctors-patents-keep-hiv-drugs-too-pricy-use-6C10516066

Delay for ACA's Mandate

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/us/politics/obama-administration-to-delay-health-law-requirement-until-2015.html

Mortgage Securities

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/23903b36-de7c-11e2-b990-00144feab7de.html#axzz2

Religion and the 2010 Affordable Care Act

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/final-rule-issued-birth-control-access-faith-based-employers-6C10484130

http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/news/pr/2013/ObamaAdminCaves.asp

Snowden and Surveillance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/snowden-extradition-may-be-complicated-process-if-criminal-charges-are-filed/2013/06/19/c525a4b8-d8e6-11e2-9df4-895344c13c30_story.html

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/24/19110438-kerry-to-russia-do-the-right-thing-and-return-nsa-leaker

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/24/white-house-hong-kong-damaged-relationship-by-releasing-snowden/

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/24/snowden_joined_contractor_to_spy_on_nsa/

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/edward-snowdens-mad-dash/

Patent on Genes

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/13/18935727-supreme-court-says-genes-cant-be-patented-patient-advocates-and-researchers-cheer

Law Enforcement and DNA Testing

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/justice/supreme-court-dna-tests/index.html

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/28/keeping-them-honest-rape-kits-go-untested-for-decades/

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/28/outrage-over-nationwide-rape-kit-backlog/

Conflict in Syria

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/world/middleeast/chances-of-un-peace-talks-on-syria-appear-dim-as-both-sides-dig-in.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/world/middleeast/white-house-pushes-back-on-bill-clintons-syria-remarks.html

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/52027866/

Violence and Death

http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/nbcs-rock-center-to-air-segment-on-domestic-violence-in-dallas.html/

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/rock-center/51923225/#51923225

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/16/us-jodi-arias-sentence-prison-or-death.html


http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23147555/nathan-dunlap-execution-date-august-18-24-2013


http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/a-stunning-error-in-mississippi/


http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/07/1975741/breaking-with-hours-remaining-mississippi-stays-execution-of-man-whose-dna-was-never-tested/

Hillary Clinton SuperPacs

http://still4hill.com/2013/03/07/another-super-pac-for-hillary-clinton/


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/07/2016_democratic_field_may_not_wait_for_clinton_117322.html

Interview with Jimmy Carter

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/22/clips-from-last-night-jimmy-carter-on-firearm-legislation-the-nra-and-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east/

Supreme Court Justice on Racial Stereotypes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/sonia-sotomayor-prosecutor_n_2759273.html

John Kerry Secretary of State

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311082-1

1965 National Voting Rights Act Challenge

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755884/#50897043

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755884/#50283680

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/27/173012038/supreme-court-weighs-future-of-voting-rights-act

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/27/no-justice-scalia-the-right-to-vote-is-not-an-entitlement/

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

Austrian Economics

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/how_paul_krugman_broke_a_wikipedia_page_on_economics/

Winner-Take-All vs Proportional Voting

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/electoral-college-changes-would-pose-danger-for-democrats/

Guantanmo Bay

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/01/25/1497571/kiriakou-gitmo-torture/

Biden's Gun Task Force

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50441272/#50441272

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/politics/gun-control-battle/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/opinion/avlon-obama-gun-control/index.html

Climate Change and the USA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50437252/ns/technology_and_science-science/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/science/earth/extreme-weather-grows-in-frequency-and-intensity-around-world.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/how-climate-change-could-wipe-out-the-western-forests/267457/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kelly-rigg/landmark-dutch-lawsuit-pu_b_7025126.html

Japan Creates Stimulus Boost

http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/10/news/economy/japan-stimulus/index.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-12/yen-drops-amid-stimulus-bets-in-longest-slump-since-1989.html

http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2013/01/11/etfs-inflows-record/

Gun Violence Impacts Longevity

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22340500/violence-plays-role-shorter-us-life-expectancy

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_22352248/police-schools-may-be-included-obamas-plan

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22350730/hickenloopers-endorsement-gun-background-checks-hard-gauge

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/12/us/kelly-giffords-brady-gun-control/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/health/a-misguided-focus-on-mental-illness-in-gun-control-debate.html