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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Slate: What pick-your-own-apple orchards teach about the American economy

Slate: Framing Theory - How the phrase public option undermined health care reform

Slate: Lost Decade - Why the last decade has been an economic disappointment for most Americans

TIME: Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?

Newsweek: Capitalism Key to Fighting Muslim Extremism

Slate: Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger

Slate: Does the Constitution protect prosecutors who fabricate evidence?

Slate: How does France distinguish between "cults" and organized religions?

Atlantic: Obama's Inner Kissinger

Economist: Public-service careers - A tough search for talent

Slate: The End of Prohibition - Why gay marriage, getting high, and going to Cuba will soon be legal

Slate: Why Arby's is so low on the restaurant food chain

Slate: A couple of questions about water on other planets

Slate: The Chamber of Commerce pursued failed policies during the Bush years, so why should Obama listen to it?

Economist: The New Orleans mayor's race

Slate: Is accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan a "terrorist?"

Slate: Why are newspapers calling Maj. Nidal Hasan the "alleged" Fort Hood shooter?

Slate: What's the Deal With "Cat Ladies"? Are there "cat gentlemen," too?

CNN: Pot acceptable? Not for young and nonwhite

Economist: Drugs - Virtually legal: In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforce

Newsweek: Ethan Nadelmann's Fight to Legalize Marijuana

Economist: Drug Policy - Time to come clean & reform

Economist: Chile's Mapuches - The people and the land: A fight over history and poverty

Economist: Land of Eastern promise - India's membership of Asia remains primarily cartographic

Slate: The Supreme Court looks at life sentences for teen offenders

Slate: Why big farms can treat their workers better than small farms

Slate: How the NFL became the American war game

Newsweek: Why 1979 Was the Year That Truly Changed the World

Slate: The lessons of 1989 (Hitchens)

CNN: All about Chinese exports

Slate: Two books about the revolutions of 1989 - How much anti-Communist opposition really was there?

Slate: The best preschool programming on TV is Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba!

TIME: Republican Revival - Moderates on Rise After Election

Slate: Why Do So Many Baseball Players Chew Tobacco?

Slate: Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's parents were faking their distress?

Slate: Why can't the International Criminal Tribunal drag Radovan Karadzic to court?

Economist: Charity, Foreign Aid, and How There Is a Better Way

Economist: Panama's financial industry - Shades of Grey

Slate: Why do we use definite articles for some place names, like The Hague?

Economist: Dallas Does Culture

CSMonitor: Why South American economies are rebounding first

New Yorker: The Amazon Wal-Mart price war

Economist: Why China resists foreign demands to revalue its currency

TIME: The Case for Modesty, in an Age of Arrogance

CNN: Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss remembered

Newsweek: (Essay) Partying Like It’s 1999 - Think the U.S. economy has come a long way? Think again.

Slate: What makes a prison state of the art? It's triangular.

Slate: What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?

Slate: Apocalypse Then - a two-part series on the lessons of Y2K. (1)

TIME: Polarized News? The Media's Moderate Bias

Slate: National Awareness Month Awareness Month - How does the president decide whether your cause deserves a proclamation?

TIME: Can Detroit Prevent a Return of 'Devil's Night'?

FP: Want to Consult w/the Best of them? Here are some pointers

Economist: Mikhail Gorbachev and the fall of the wall - The man who trusted his eyes: Why the Soviet Union’s leader did not send in the tanks

Economist: The World after 1989 - The ex-communist countries of central Europe have fared well, mostly, since 1989. But they still have to shed their image as poor and troubled relations

Economist: The globe after the Soviet collapse

Economist: China's reaction to the Communist collapse

Economist: Berlin re-united

Slate: Why was Berlin the key to the Cold War?

Slate: Are men really more competitive than women? Don't bet on it.

Slate: What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood?

CNN: Job outlook for 2010 grads - Still stinks: Hiring for graduates will remain near its lowest level in decades after 40% plunge last year, new survey says. But hiring will spike 15% at smaller companies.

TIME: The Anglican and Catholic Churches - Friends or Rivals?

Newsweek: Why Are the Venetians Fleeing Venice?

Economist: America's struggling newspapers - Big is best: Most national papers in America are faring better than metropolitan ones

Slate: How Ayn Rand Became an American Icon - The perverse allure of a damaged woman

Economist: New York's special election - Not (far-)right enough

Economist: Mayoral elections - Hard to dislodge (Bloomberg)

Economist: Himalayan Histrionics (China & India)

Slate: A TV critic journeys through the cheerful hell of exercise shows

Slate: Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal?

Slate: A defense of jaywalking

Newsweek: Brazil takes off - Now the risk for Latin America’s big success story is hubris

Economist: Colombia's paramilitaries - Militias march again

Slate: Why are helicopters always crashing?

Slate: Why Do They Play Bagpipes at Soldiers' Funerals?

CSMonitor: Ski jumping on plastic? How Olympians train before the snow flies

Slate: Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle

Economist: Cops & Crime in LA - New Police Commissioner

Economist: American Jews and Israel - J Street puts a foot in the door

Economist: Scottish history and politics - Old wars, new battles
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