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A sign for the Social Security Administration is seen in Los Angeles, Friday, July 29, 2011. If the debt ceiling currently being debated in Congress does not rise, the government would need to choose what to pay and what not, including benefits like Social Security. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) A sign for the Social Security Administration [...]

The election that took place on Nov. 8, 2011 featured a number of statewide initiatives that have national import. Two of the results would seem to favor Democrats while two other results favored Republicans. What the meaning these initiatives have for the 2012 election, if any, will be the subject of considerable debate for the [...]

Which program created the most social media buzz this past week? As we’ve seen in charts past, social television participants tend to gravitate toward singular, news-making broadcasts. Before, it was awards shows — this week, Trendrr’s social TV chart gets political. CNN’s Republican National Security debate last Tuesday spawned educated chatter throughout the social air [...]

Depression finally seems to have brought out the best in Lars von Trier: “Melancholia” is his strongest work in a while, a devastatingly beautiful, operatic mixture of all his signature themes and visual schemes. Doom is certain from the start. This is, after all, a von Trier film. But the director portends his characters’ fate [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2011) ? Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that cancer cells tap into a natural recycling system to obtain the energy they need to keep dividing. In a study with potential implications for cancer treatments, Einstein researchers used genetic manipulation to turn off this recycling system [...]