1. 48 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Screw You Over

2. Wendy Davis appearance offers preview of gubernatorial bid

3. 4 Companies Screwing Their Workers Out of Health Insurance as Health Care Exchanges Open

4. ‘I Worked All Week for Free?’: The Horrifying, True Story of $0 Paychecks

5. Texas, Are You Ready For Voter ID?

6. Now You Can Go To Harvard And Learn Cooking Science From Top Chefs

7. There is a thing called ‘The Church of Google,’ whose members believe “Google is the closest thing to a “god” human beings have ever directly experienced.”

8. How Marcella Hazan Taught Us All to Cook with Precision

9. Failure Is Not an Option: The Story of  Bev Kearney

10. Jon Stewart’s Rockin’ Shutdown Eve

This article appears in Oct 2-8, 2013.