Survivor stories are beginning to emerge from the massacre, including accounts of heroic bravery as the gunman fired into unarmed crowds and shot soldiers "like fish in a barrel."

As Fort Hood mourns 13 soldiers dead at an Army psychiatrist’s hand, the ex-chief of the CIA’s WMD unit says security at U.S. military bases is grossly inadequate. By Jeff Stein.

No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on what's behind America's shameful epidemic.

Kate Bosworth wears winter white in Moscow, Leighton Meester stuns in floral, and Katy Perry goes jeweled and feathered. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best looks of the week.

As House leaders push to pass health-care reform, a major political headache looms: The bill's impact won’t be felt until long after anxious voters go to the polls in 2010. By Matt Miller.

From Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech to the moment East Germans spilled across the border, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

From Sesame Street's Fox News slam to a Philippines prison's Queen jam, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.

With unemployment over 10 percent for the first time in 26 years, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to determine the careers with the best—and worst—prospects.