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Monitor articles for October 08, 2014

• Edward Snowden: whistleblower, criminal ... Nobel Peace Prize winner?
• FocusHas politics lost its 'human touch'? Louisiana Senate race is test case.
• FocusXi Jinping emerges as forceful No. 1 – rewriting China's power playbook
• A museum-quality spice collection
• How worker-owned co-ops lift people out of poverty
• Hybrid cars: Cadillac to unveil a luxury plug-in model next year
• Reader recommendation: The Healing of America
• Kurds try to capitalize on US airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in Kobane
• Barack who? Democrats flee Obama in Tuesday Senate debates.
• 3 new collections from lauded poets
• Three scientists awarded Nobel for building a better microscope
• Kobane backlash: Rage among Turkey's Kurds risks opening old wounds
• Why Obama may punt on executive action on immigration, even after the election
• Panetta's pivot: why to expect more books from Clinton folks who worked for Obama
• Why unchecked Ebola outbreak could crash West Africa's economy
• The Monitor's ViewNorth Korea's moment of truth about its gulag
• Why Turkey is dragging its feet on helping anti-Islamic State coalition
• EPA: US cars more efficient than ever
• Most US politicians are white and male, and numbers are still 'lopsided'
• The problem behind Africa's 2014 index of well governed countries: Few are.
• J.C. Penney (JCP) stock plunges, but the company is doing better
• FBI asks Americans to help ID masked Islamic State jihadi. Good idea?
• California grounds air tankers after aircraft crashes while fighting fire
• Australian fighters target Islamic militants in Iraq
• Pat Roberts says independent opponent is a Democrat in disguise
• As President Kenyatta faces accusers, Hague court case nears collapse
• A conversation with White House cybersecurity czar Michael Daniel
• Air tanker crash highlights age of California's firefighting aircraft
• Winter squash and pear soup with sage
• With new bill, New York City aims to be model for transgender rights
• Facebook builds new app that allows fake names: report
• AT&T will pay $105 million for unwanted mobile charges
• Death of Dallas Ebola patient raises questions about his care
• 'God Only Knows' connects generations for a good cause and good music
• Ebola: The kind of enemy the US military excels at fighting
• 'Gone Girl': Parts of the 'Amazing Amy' books from the novel are available as a sample
• Did Comcast arrange to have a fed-up customer fired from his job?
• Why China will unseat US as world's largest economy by year's end
• Supreme Court Justice Kennedy halts gay marriage licenses in Idaho
• Oil prices keep falling. Why that's bad news for Russia.
• Spectacular 'blood moon' eclipse wows skywatchers
• Spacewalking astronauts upgrade space station
• First US-diagnosed Ebola patient dies in Texas hospital
• Jimmy Carter slams Obama on IS. Pile-on week at White House?
• Hong Kong protests decline, as leaders agreed to talks with government
• Kenyatta lawyers try to get case thrown out of ICC
• A Christian Science PerspectiveThe Bible unites us
• China just overtook US as the world's largest economy, IMF says
• CN train derailment: petroleum cars catch fire in Saskatchewan
• 'Sons of Anarchy': The new episode involves a big cliffhanger
• What happened to SodaStream?
• Print books are outselling digital by a healthy margin
• Millennials and investing: Five questions, answered
• Siri is more distracting than texting while driving, study finds
• Captain of doomed South Korean ferry: I'm sorry
• Hinkley Point nuclear plant gets OK from EU
• Election 2014 boasts a bumper crop of political dynasties
• IBM's Watson settles down in New York and learns Spanish
• Democrats plan last minute ad blitz in South Dakota
• Sharing economy: San Francisco becomes first major US city to legalize Airbnb
• 'The Giving Tree' celebrates its 50th anniversary
• Indonesian cave art: oldest hand 'stencil' yet discovered
• Pope Francis works to reconcile divisions among Catholics in Latin America
• New screening for Ebola fever at select US airports, official says
• 'The Judge' actor Robert Downey Jr. shares why his movie is different from other legal dramas
• With new book, Leon Panetta joins group of top cabinet officials turning their backs on Obama
• AT&T will pay $105 million for bogus charges on customer bills