At fundraisers, the President Obama has said that the entire message of his opponent’s campaign can fit on a bumper sticker, or in a tweet: "It's Obama's Fault." The Obama campaign, on the other hand, has a more nuanced story to push on voters, and that puts them at a disadvantage.

If you’re a driver on the Stanford University campus in California, you might just win some money these days for driving during off-peak hours as part of a new program that launched this spring. The program is called CAPRI, for Congestion and Parking Relief Incentives.

Yesterday Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Andrew Rasiej discussed how political campaigns have been using data mining to target campaign ads. Now other experts are using data to give us information on everything from medicine, to our ancestry, to the state of traffic on Los Angeles’s busy highways.

Deadly violence across Iraq this morning. Our partner the BBC reports more than 80 people have been killed in a wave of attacks in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq. Authorities say the bombing appears to have been coordinated to strike during a major religious festival. Sebastian Usher is the Arab affairs editor for the BBC.

It's no secret that coming out is tough. No one can ever really gauge just how someone will react beforehand, no matter how close to you they may be. Now imagine that you're making millions of dollars in an industry that relies heavily on it's super macho image. This may seem like an unrealistic scenario, but for retired NFL player Wade Davis, this was an all too familiar reality.

The conflict in Syria is escalating so rapidly and involving such sectarian violence that one U.N. peacekeeper has called it a "civil war." What does identifying the conflict as a "civil war" mean going forward?

Back in February The Brian Lehrer Show, which appears on our co-producing station WNYC, began a series. It was called “The End of War,” and it featured conversations about whether or not war is inevitable. On the last day of the series, we’re talking with host Brian Lehrer and John Horgan, the author of “The End of War,” the book that inspired the series.

When he ran for President, then-Senator Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of hope. For many, that hope meant a post-racial era, one when an African-American man could lead a country with a sordid racial history. The Reverend Dr. Cynthia L. Hale, senior pastor of the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, Georgia, doesn't think America is past racism but has hope for the future.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russia's shipment of attack helicopters to Syria will escalate the conflict there. Yet Moscow says its deliveries to Syria are in line with international regulations and that it plans to continue shipments. Diplomatic hopes have rested on Washington and Moscow agreeing on a transition plan that would end the four-decade Assad regime.

Washington Mutual, or WaMu as it was popularly known, once marketed itself as the bank of the little guy. But WaMu is no longer that bank around the corner. What happened?