The Takeaway

The Myth of the NRA | Assault Rifle Ban Returns to the Table for Discussion | Congress Debates Sandy Aid, Scott Replaces DeMint, and More Washington News | CERN Researchers Make Zombie Flick to Appeal to the Masses | The Changing Middle East, Two Years After the Arab Spring

The Sandy Hook Shooting from Friday to Monday | Considering Mental Health Wake of Sandy Hook | Representative Carolyn McCarthy on Gun Control | Newtown Sparks Gun Debate, But Will Anything Change? | A Liberal's Case for Guns | Syria's Dictator Losing His Grip | Connecticut Tries to Move Forward After School Shooting

Egyptians Protest Ahead of Constitution Vote | The Debt Nightmare Returns | New Movie Releases: 'The Hobbit' | New Film Tells True Story of Gay Couple Trying to Adopt in 1979 | Remixing the Holidays with Olivia Newton-John

U.S. Debt and Taxes: A History | America's Poor are Left Out of Fiscal Cliff Negotiations | Al Qaeda Scope and Strength Extends to Syria and Beyond | Playing Ebinezer Scrooge in the Age of Income Inequality | How Children Become Good Adults | Violence and Abuse in Insular Communities

U.S. Recognizes Syrian Opposition | U.S. Senator Ben Cardin on Effort to Promote Human Rights | Three U.S. Cities Recover Fully from the Recession: Pittsburgh | What Drives Innovation in State Government? | Michigan House Pushes Right-to-Work Through | Encouraging Young Innovators in Sierra Leone

Three U.S. Cities Recover Fully from the Recession: Dallas | Secret Practices of Immigration Officials Put Criminals Back on the Streets | Labor Activists Could Face Historic Defeat Over Right-to-Work | 'Letter from America' Examines the US Through a British Lens

After 40 Years, Gay Clerk Marries Partner | The Destruction of Aleppo | Are Holiday Bonuses a Good Investment for Companies? | Knoxville One of Three American Cities "Fully Recovered" from Great Recession | 'Letter from America': An Archive of Stories Connecting America and Britain

The Changing Value of a College Degree | A Map for Finding Our Fiscal Way | Conditions for Syrian Refugees Continue to Worsen | Olympus Whistleblower Speaks Out | Harry Reid's New Year's Resolution? Filibuster Reform | Jim DeMint Exits Senate for Heritage Foundation | Edward Burns on Directing, Acting and the Holidays  

Lessons Learned from the Oslo Accords | With Little Fanfare, UN Climate Talks Underway in Doha | Students Fight for Colleges to Drop Fossil Fuel Holdings | Scandals, State Dinners, and the Real Story Behind 'Hyde Park on Hudson' | The Black Sheep of the Family

America's Changing Relationship with International Law | Lessons Learned from the Oslo Accords | Paris Opens Europe's First Gay-Friendly Mosque | "My Friend Dahmer": The Education of a Serial Killer | What Are the New Deadly Sins?

The Latest from the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff | Do Tax Incentives Really Create Jobs? | Space News: For the History Books or the Front Pages? | Opposing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities | The Difference Between Rational and Irrational Fear

Latin America's New Middle Class | Ira Glass on the Visible and the Invisible | Complications at a Massachusetts Crime Lab | 'Eve of Destruction': How 1965 Transformed American History | Is the American dream Still Alive?

The Jellyfish that Could Hold the Secret to Immortality | 'Triumphs of Experience': Studying the Happy Life | New Movie Releases: 'Killing Them Softly,' 'Anna Karenina' | From the Heart: Five Novelists Discuss Writing About Love | Will the Supreme Court Consider the Case Against DOMA? | Creating a Mold-Free Bread

OK to Be Gay? Jewish Conversion Therapy Faces First Legal Battle | If We Had a Billion Dollars, We'd Buy Unicorns and Trips To Space | Life One Year After A Double-Hand Transplant | Five Authors of Memoirs Discuss Death

Your Fiscal Cliff Questions, Answered | Fiction or Non-Fiction? A Veteran Journalist Explains Why He Ventured into Fiction | The Hobbit Premiers In New Zealand, Middle Earth Goes Nuts | Winston Churchill, 'The Last Lion' | The Onion: From Fake Sexiest Man Alive to Real News