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Friday, January 15, 2010

Slate: The Supreme Court justices prove they know nothing whatsoever about the NFL

Newsweek: Spurning Obama, McCain and Cantwell propose resurrecting Glass-Steagall to break up Wall Street.

New Yorker: Chicago Economists

New Republic: Double Down - Argentina offers up a textbook example of how not to manage a central bank

FP: The Ghosts of Port-au-Prince - Why is Haiti so haunted?

New Republic: Haiti's Tragic History

Atlantic: Bring Back the Mugwumps

Salon: Haiti's "pact with the devil" myth - How Pat Robertson turned a country's origin myth into a cheap invocation of Satanism

Newsweek: Why Wars No Longer End with Winners and Losers

Slate: Dr. George Tiller's killer argues his crime was justified

Slate: How will they figure the death toll from the earthquake in Haiti?

Slate: Haiti Earthquake FAQ - Do buildings in Haiti have earthquake codes? Why do some quakes cause tsunamis and others don't? And what's a "hospital ship," anyway?

Economist: The Obama presidency, one year on - Barack Obama’s first year has been good, but not great—and things are going to get a lot harder

Economist: Barack Obama's first year - Governing is harder than campaigning. But America’s 44th president has made an adequate start

Economist: Democracy's decline - Crying for freedom: A disturbing decline in global liberty prompts some hard thinking about what is needed for democracy to prevail

Economist: France's ban on the burqa - The war of French dressing

Economist: Venezuela's devaluation - The weakening of the “strong bolívar”: In a harsher world Venezuela faces a reckoning

CSMonitor: New face of religion in Latin America - Evangelicalism sweeps through churches, leading some to say that Latin America is emerging as the new center of Christianity

Salon: Conan forever - Big Red won our hearts as Leno became the Voldemort of comedy -- even, shockingly, to his fellow comedians

Economist: The economy - The trap: The curse of long-term unemployment will bedevil the economy

Economist: Michigan - As America hopes for recovery, Michigan needs whole-scale reinvention. It may be 15 years before the state returns to prosperity

SI: Supreme Court skeptical of NFL antitrust protection

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