Washington Governor Chris Gregoire on how she evolved into a marriage-equality champion.

Matthew Bowman, author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith, on how religion shapes Mitt Romney’s candidacy.

Twelve rules for mauling your opponent on TV.

The congressional deficit supercommittee is at risk of deadlocking over taxes. And for that, you can largely blame (or thank, depending) Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and his very effective anti-tax pledge. Here, the roots of Norquist’s ideas and style.

Below, a selection of Steve Jobs’s devices held by MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt, London’s Design Museum, and Hamburg’s Museum for Arts and Crafts, illustrated with patent drawings related to their development.

Re-creating the room where Martin Luther King Jr. spent his final night.

Pollster and former Clinton adviser Stanley B. Greenberg debunks the fantasy of the independent voter.

Hunting for a link.

Flying weapons.

Looking to quell opposition to its plan to put a store in East New York, Wal-Mart has been pulling out the stops.