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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Slate: Oceans, reviewed

TIME: The Man Who Invents Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors

Slate: Slate's interactive test of how open-minded your news diet is

Slate: The beaches along the Eastern seaboard are about to disappear, says one EPA scientist. Why isn't anyone listening?

FP: The world has a lot of problems. An exploding population isn't one of them - Disproving Malthus

FP: Add ‘Dark Knight’ to the BD terrorism film festival? This reader isn’t joking

FP: Eleven Reasons Plutarch & Herodotus Still Matter

Newsweek: Ancient Greece and Us

Slate: Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation

Atlantic: Why Kennedy Owns the Supreme Court

CSMonitor: US engineers study Chile earthquake to bolster California building codes

CSMonitor: Chile earthquake takes heavy toll on historical sites

Economist: Rebuilding Chile - Taxing times: A balanced reconstruction plan

CSMonitor: Pirates - Why don’t more ships have private security?

Mental Floss: The Ins & Outs of Exotic Animal Smuggling

Slate: What do directors of TV series like Lost and Mad Men do? Are they like movie directors?

CSMonitor: OAS reelects Insulza, but is the world's oldest regional group still relevant?

Economist: Chile's wine industry - If one green bottle: A propaganda war over earthquake damage to wineries

CNNMoney: China & the Yuan - What's at Stake

Economist: America & the Yuan - The truth hurts: Will the Treasury call China a currency manipulator?

Slate: Why the next justice won't be like William Brennan

Slate: Looking ahead to Justice Antonin Scalia's retirement

Economist: Wars and laws - To the loser—a lawyer: Win or lose, you may still be able to sue

Slate: The sad state of the liberal law student

Slate: The Supreme Court tangles with mandatory arbitration clauses

Slate: Which illegal drug is best for the environment?

Salon: Drugs - Legalize Marijuana

CNN: Indoor tanning linked to addictive behaviors

Atlantic: Stevens Retires - The End of "Old School" On the Court

TIME: World's Strongest Beer - BrewDog's Alcohol Heads to U.S.

Slate: Conan's move to TBS is brilliant—and not just because he'll make a fortune

Slate: The life story of a hyena

Slate: The life story of a jellyfish

Slate: Did George Will's Men at Work anticipate baseball's statistical revolution?

Economist: Defining what makes a country - In quite a state: How many countries in the world? The answer to that question is surprisingly difficult

Big Money: The Myth of the Sophisticated Investor

Economist: Libya - Why it is still stuck: Despite opening up to the world, Libya still suffers from capricious leadership

Slate: Newsweek has fallen down and can't get up

Nature: How do Morals Change?

Economist: The Vatican's travails - When walls are too high: A penchant for conspiracy is no help to the Vatican’s image

CNN: Gay outrage over Cardinal's child abuse comment

Newsweek: Catholics - Time to Break Up the All-Male Club

Newsweek: Can You Afford To Be A Summer Intern?

Economist: A reader debate on Islamic finance - Suckers for sukuk?

Slate: Is Google's Eric Schmidt scared of Apple's Steve Jobs?

New Yorker: David Simon’s “Treme,” on HBO, Review

Slate: David Simon's Treme reviewed

Slate: Is David Simon's Treme too easy on New Orleans?

Slate: Sarah Palin's playground - If only all political issues were debated in the language of childhood

Newsweek: Touchy-Feely Food Memoirs

Newsweek: Are Tea Partiers Racist?

Newsweek: New Poll Finds Tea Partiers Have More Racist Attitudes

Economist: Portland and “elite cities” - The new model: Is Oregon’s metropolis a leader among American cities or just strange?

Economist: Social mobility and inequality - Upper bound: The American dream is simple - Work hard and move up. As the country emerges from recession, the reality looks ever more complicated

New Yorker: Anglicanism & the Church of England - The battle within the Church of England to allow women to be bishops

CSMonitor: Oil rig explosion unmasks 'dangerous myth' of safety, lawmakers say

Slate: What happens to the oil they're skimming off of the Gulf of Mexico?

Slate: When did the Gulf oil spill become visible from space?

FP: Has the "Left", 'lost' a monopoly on human rights?

FP: Does India Still Need a Hindu Nationalist Party?

Slate: What's the Matter With Virginia? - Political backsliding in the Old Dominion

Newsweek: The Problem With Confederate History Month

CNN: Were Confederate soldiers terrorists?

SI: Ron Artest among leaders in art of playing NBA perimeter defense

New Republic: In Defense of Huggy Bear

Slate: Does the Vatican conduct all of its official business in Latin?

Slate: Can the Pope revoke someone's sainthood?

Slate: Can doctors refuse to treat patients based on their political beliefs?

Slate: How far does diplomatic immunity go?

Slate: Felipe Calderon criticized Arizona's immigration law for being discriminatory. How tough are Mexican immigration laws?

Mental Floss: What’s the Difference? Yoga vs. Pilates

Mental Floss: 10 Latin Phrases You Pretend to Understand

Mental Floss: What’s the Difference? World Bank vs. the International Monetary Fund

Mental Floss: What’s the Difference? Blimp vs. Zeppelin

Slate: Globalization is - The Colombian office of an Indian consulting firm staffed partly with Uruguayans and reporting to a boss in Argentina.

New Republic: How Wall Street Creates Socialists

Slate: Can you force yourself to dream?

Economist: Desegregation & Schools - No easy answers: Has Wake County thrown out the baby with the bathwater?

Newsweek: Why Young Women Need Feminism

TIME: Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?

TIME: Two Yale Economists Urge Leverage for Young Investors

Economist: Small-business finance - Markets for minnows: New financing markets offer a ray of hope to credit-starved small firms

NYT: The Paper Debate & College Debate

Examiner: Postmodernism - Absolute freedom without absolute truth

CNN: 'Geek Out!:' Technology and the supernatural on 'Lost' island

Slate: Maybe America doesn't want a hogtied judicial branch after all

Slate: Elena Kagan is a progressive on executive power

American Interest: Liberal Internationalism - The Twilight of a Dream

FP: Justice Stevens and the "War on Terror"

New Yorker: The Stevens Way of Retiring

Newsweek: Justice Stevens & the Benefits of a Boring Court

Slate: Justice John Paul Stevens is the model for why empathy matters

CNN: In digital world, we trade privacy for convenience

Atlantic: SEC Suing Goldman for Fraud

MLB: Is Lagging Attendance a Crisis or Fluke?

Winston-Salem Journal: (New) Coach Bdelik settling in

ESPN: Ice Cube talks film, & his Oakland Raiders

SI: Athletes will misbehave, we need to accept that & enjoy sports

ESPN: The NFL's Roger Goodell and the NBA's David Stern take dramatically different approaches to disciplining their players, and Stern's way seems wiser

CNN: 5 gripes about the health care law - Are doctors right?

TIME: U.S. Expat Taxes Drive Americans to Give Up Citizenship

Slate: Are there no hipsters in China? Why Chinese bicyclists have resisted the ironic fixed-gear trend that has swept the rest of the world

Economist: Mexico's culture wars - Metrosexuality: As the capital grows more liberal, conservatives are rallying elsewhere

Economist: Intransigent Cuba - Protest songs: Grumbling is not the same as dissent

Economist: Bolivia's president & his Opponents - People's justice: Will opponents get a fair trial?
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
ABA-Journal: Law Prof Backs First Amendment Over Ban of R-Word

Economist: Canadian cities - The charms of Calgary

SI: Gary Williams defends Maryland's student-athletes

Slate: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition

Slate: What's wrong with the FCC's plan to bring high-speed Internet access to rural America

Slate: Why are Americans so credulous about heaven?

Slate: Inside Pyongyang, the North Korean chain with restaurants across Asia

Chronicle of Higher Education: On Universities & Higher Education

New Yorker: What will the Supreme Court be like without Justice John Paul Stevens?

Atlantic: Macau’s Big Gamble

Economist: Assassinations

Economist: Assassinations & Technology - Hitmen Old & New

Economist: Latin America's Unproductive Economies - Service break

New Republic: 1937, 2010 - Is Packing the Supreme Court Such an Atrocity?|

WSJ Law Blog: Will the Citizens United Ruling Prove Harmful to Capitalism?

New Republic: Do Americans Want To Tax The Rich Because They're Ignorant?

CSMonitor: Will the student aid bill help with your college costs?

CNNMoney: How well is the SEC protecting you?

TIME: McDonald's Chef - The Most Influential Cook in America?

Atlantic: Australia’s bush meat is tasty, healthy, and enviro-friendly. But can you get people to eat it?

FP: Which country do Americans like the most?

Slate: Kentucky's John Calipari is the sleaziest coach in a sleazy game

Slate: The devils behind Subway's "five-dollar foot-long" jingle

New Republic: The Inhumanities of the Humanities

Atlantic: The Ramayana on the Big Screen

New Republic: Well, What I’ve Always Wanted to Do Is Direct - Remember when political kids used to be content inheriting Senate seats?

Economist: Argentina under the Kirchners - Socialism for foes, capitalism for friends

Economist: Latin American literature after the "boom"

Slate: Why is Chile so long and skinny?

CSMonitor: Chile earthquake - 'Looters run wild'? Not quite.

Economist: Chile's new government - Running to rebuild a shaken country

Slate: Chile will survive the earthquake because its democracy works

Slate: Chile survived its huge earthquake relatively well. Iran would be a different story

WSJ Law Blog: With Microsoft & Antitrust, Shoe Now on Other Foot

New Republic: Book Review - Justice Kennedy

New Republic: Just how radical is Justice Roberts?

FP: The History of the Honey Trap - Five lessons for would-be James Bonds and Bond girls -- and the men and women who would resist them

ESPN: Grading South Africa's World Cup Stadiums

New Republic: Toward a New Alexandria - Imagining the future of libraries

Atlantic: What's So Special About 'Alice in Wonderland'?

Slate: What happened to 'save the whales'?

Slate: Why does drug reporting suck?

TIME: Study - Titanic, Lusitania Disaster Survival Differences

TIME: Study - Darkness Encourages Dishonest Behavior, Cheating

New Yorker: Can nuclear power make a comeback?

CNN: The case for captive animals

FP: Why Latin America doesn't care what the US thinks anymore

Economist: The price of Chile's earthquake

CSMonitor: Chile earthquake relief - Cellphone donations struggle compared to Haiti

Economist: Chile's earthquake - In need of repair

New Yorker: Can psychiatry be called a 'science'?

Slate: The telltale bagel & the secret moral hierarchy of the New York Post

CSMonitor: Dark matter revealed? - Giant particle collider at CERN could detect dark matter

Slate: Why pledges to "clean up Washington" never work

New Yorker: Is long-term solitary confinement torture?

Economist: France & Vichy - Remembering the Vel d'Hiv

Slate: A federal court rebukes a district attorney who cracked down on three girls over seminude photos

Slate: Can a family court prevent a parent from taking his daughter to church?

Economist: German dialects and migration - Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Slate: Let's trade with Iran. After all, Iranians love to shop, and Americans love to sell

FP: What Happened to New York's moxie?

Slate: Israel & liberal Jews are moving apart

Slate: The United States won't bomb Iran, but another country might

CSMonitor: Innovation center? How Israel became a 'Start-Up Nation'

Slate: If a NASCAR driver died in a crash, would the racer who caused it be liable?

Economist: Health reform in America - Signed, sealed, delivered

CSMonitor: What is "Theory"?

New Republic: Oh, the Humanities! What are Humanities Good For?

Slate: Can governors tell their attorneys general what to do?

NYT: The Sandra Bullock Trade

Newsweek: The Link Between Engineers & Jihad

Slate: How do you become a lawyer for the Vatican?

Slate: Why are so many Duke Blue Devils awesome in college and awful in the pros?

ESPN: Dual-nationals face a tough decisions in the World Cup

SI: NBA coaches hold toughest jobs in sports

Slate: The Supreme Court shortlist as political anthropology

CNN: Is Digg the future of social news?

New Yorker: The sociology of drinking

TIME: Do animals commit suicide? Yes says one expert

Slate: A short guide to financial regulatory reform

Newsweek: Greenspan Explains What Went Wrong

Slate: What Lewis Carroll Taught Us - Alice's creator knew all about role-playing

Slate: What makes a horrible film great?

New Republic: French culture & colonialism

Slate: A real-life soldier says The Hurt Locker is based on his life. How will the court decide?

Slate: The life story of the eel - One of nature's most disgusting creatures

New Yorker: How Paul Krugman found politics

Economist: New York's troubled politicians - The fall of the Harlem Clubhouse

New Yorker: When podiatrists break the law

Slate: The tricks Congress uses to get better CBO scores for their legislation

Economist: New Orleans Police & Scandal

CSMonitor: Has blogging peaked?

FP: What do people in the Falklands Islands think about the oil dispute with Argentina?

New Republic: A Critical Analysis of Palinspeak

New Republic: California's Gubernatorial Race - Governor Moonbeam vs. EMeg

Economist: California's Gubernatorial Race - The Other Brown

New Republic: O.J. Simpson, critical race theory, the law, and the triumph of color in America

CSMonitor: Daylight Saving Time - Remind me again why we 'spring forward'?

Newsweek: Why Behavioral Economists Love Online Games

Atlantic: Will the Right Find Libertarianism?

TIME: Jobs Are The New Assets

New Yorker: Ian Paisley Steps Down

Slate: How Obama can get behind the idea of limited government

New Republic: Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone De Beauvoir (Video)

New Republic: South Dakota Makes A Play For Dumbest State In The Nation

Economist: Time for India to get serious about its Maoist insurgencies

Economist: Detroit - Thinking about Shrinking?

Slate: Can the pope be fired?

New Republic: Stoicism & Us

CSMonitor: Calvinism is Back

CSMonitor: All About New Calvinism

Slate: What does a congressional "whip" actually do?

TIME: 'Whip Smart' - Melissa Febos on Her NYC Dominatrix Memoir

ESPN: Meet the Clippers' new GM
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Atlantic: Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead

Atlantic: Getting Good Restaurant Service - Insiders Spill

Slate: Amnesty International has lost sight of its original purpose

Slate: Love those "tempestuous" Russian figure skaters

The Root: Celebrating Candomblé in Bahia

Newsweek: The National Endowment for the Arts New Troublemaker - Rocco Landesman

New Republic: Liberals & Libertarian voters finally break up

Salon: The key to understanding the populist right's accusations that Obama is a socialist

Slate: In biographies for children, presidents are great even before they become president

Slate: A Discussion about '90s Women in Rock

Slate: Why isn't tear gas illegal? It's a chemical weapon, isn't it?

Slate: Barack Obama momentarily drops his outrage over banker bonuses

Atlantic: Where To Try KSM And The 9/11 Conspirators? Political Pros And Cons

Newsweek: The Death of the Biopic

TIME: Why Can't Women Ski Jump in the Olympics?

Economist: Old dogs and new tricks - In many prosperous democracies, a crisis-driven backlash against the political right failed to materialize. Why so?
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Slate: Lost - Farewell to an American institution

FA: Obama's Tango - Restoring U.S. Leadership in Latin America

Atlantic: How to Think About - Jewish Bankers

Economist: Regulating banks - Garrottes and sticks: The first of four articles on the implications of the Volcker rule examines reactions on Wall Street

CNN: Fact Check - U.S. food policies directly contribute to Haiti's poverty

The Onion (Parody): New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion

Above the Law: JD / MBA of the Day: Jonathan Eakman, With A Big FU to SMU

Economist: The size and power of the state is growing, and discontent is on the rise

Slate: The crazy perversities of civil asset forfeiture

New Yorker: Why cable companies bundle their channels

Slate: Vancouver's experiment with helping addicts get high

Salon: Haiti - Media turns to disaster porn to keep an audience

Slate: Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis

Kiplinger: The Most-Overlooked Tax Deductions

New Republic: What the "Weekly Standard" Gets Wrong about Purportedly "Oversexed" Society

Newsweek: Why College Grads Are Happier in Marriage

TIME: Incredible 'Oceans' Sea Documentary Wins Awards

TIME: Proposed Micronesia-Wide Conservation Park a World First

Atlantic: Tort Reform Is Anti-Democratic (And Ingeniously Marketed)

Slate: What interest rate does the government pay on its debt?

Atlantic: Commercial real estate is dominated by financial professionals, not hustlers looking for a quick flip. So why is the market about to melt down?

CNN: Mediterranean diet may help prevent dementia, study says

Healthy Eats: 10 Foods that Are Healthier than you Think/Thought

Atlantic: The Limits of Deficit Spending (Posner)

Rolling Stone: The Fabulous Fraudulent Life of Jocelyn and Ed

Slate: The little-known reason why investment banks got too big, too greedy, too risky, and too powerful

Slate: How many ways can you bow in Japan?

TIME: Looking to China's Economy for Resilience

Planned Parenthood: The Truth about Margaret Sanger

Salon: Black Babies as Propaganda by the Anti-Choice Crowd

FP: The War Colleges are Found Wanting

Atlantic: Luntz's Cheat Sheet Talking Points Blueprint to Kill Democratic Financial Reforms

Slate: Thousands of soldiers have been fired for telling. What happens to the ones who ask? (Two-Facedly) Nothing.

Slate: North Korea is even weirder and despicable than you thought

Economist: Scarcity and globalisation - A needier era?: The politics of global disruption, and how they may change

New Republic: White House Goes After Oil And Gas Subsidies--Again

Slate: Why quiet, understated TV ads are so effective

US News: Are Payday Lenders Modern-Day Loan Sharks?

FA: What to Read on Fascism

FP: Keeping Fascism At Bay

Slate: What Happens When Justices Get Personal

New Republic: Our Thin-Skinned Supreme Court

Newsweek: Are Life Coaches Good or Bad?

New Republic: Why is Race such a Focus when the News Looks at Couples?

New Republic: The Metamorphosis of Tintin or Tintin for Adults

NYT: Pushing Military Styles to a New Level of Ferocity

CNNMoney: Beware of Life-Settlements

Stanford Study: Older investors are prone to mental misfires while playing the market

TIME: Ambition - Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed

US News: How to Invest in Commodities

US News: The Winter Olympic Nutrition Plan - What the Athletes Eat

CNN: How old is the plane you're flying on?

Economist: Polling Republicans - The GOP id speaks

TIME: Top 10 Worst Corporate Name Changes

FP: Who will be the next secretary of state?

Slate: Should we bother cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Slate: How Sean Payton's daring play-calling won the New Orleans Saints their first Super Bowl

Slate: Peyton Manning is a genius. He's also a pain in the ass.

Slate: Why do late-night hosts always keep their desks on the right?

CNN: Dirty hotels gross out travelers

11Points: 11 Most Scandalous Saved by the Bell Revelations in Screech's Autobiography

NPR: Yogurt Dominated Palates In The Aughts

Newsweek: The Case Against Layoffs - They Often Backfire

TIME: Facebook's Doppelganger Week Is Viral Groupthink

FP: The End of Diplomacy? Once up a time, Americans achieved great things abroad. No longer.

ESPN: 20 reasons why New Orleans (and not Miami) is the place to be for the Super Bowl

Atlantic: Trashing the iPad - What's Behind the Animosity

Newsweek: How Qaddafi Shamed the African Union
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Slate: Corporations Are People, Too - Why do courts give companies the same rights as individuals?

Slate: The real meaning of the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United

Economist: Free speech and campaign cash - Unbound: The Supreme Court undermines convoluted campaign-finance rules

New Yorker: Profile - John Mackey & Whole Foods

Newsweek: Why Free Markets Require Free Minds, Even China's

Slate: French President Sarkozy declares that capitalism can be made kinder and more humane. Good luck with that!

Newsweek: May the Best Theory Win - How economists are competing to make sense of our failed financial system

Economist: Seven questions for Jeffrey Sachs

Slate: How long have presidents been trying to "change the culture of Washington"?

CSMonitor: Brett Favre - Hero or villain?

Slate: Why does conventional wisdom espoused by incredibly rich people sound so intelligent?

New Republic: Obama's War With The Court Just Escalated

Atlantic: Obama’s Supreme Court Criticism - The president was right to reprimand the least accountable branch of government

Economist: Regulating America's banks - Stage prop

Atlantic: Q&A With the IMF's Simon Johnson On Financial Reform

New Republic: The Chin Abides - In Defense of Jay Leno

New Republic: Why Do People Love 'Catcher In The Rye'?

Newsweek: J.D. Salinger's Influence - Salinger himself, as well as his most famous character, has influenced pop culture, crime—even modern linguistics.

Slate: The Saints Are Coming - New Orleans celebrates its football team's first-ever Super Bowl appearance.

New Republic: Did "African American" History Really Happen In Atlanta, Cleveland, Philly, And Detroit? Listening To The Census

TIME: India vs. China - Whose Economy Is Better?

New Republic: Postmodern At Bedtime

New Republic: Obama's Dull, Cheap, Successful Speech

New Republic: The Return of Ulysses S. Grant

Slate: How would Pope John Paul II have gone about self-flagellating?

TIME: Pope John Paul II Whipped Self

Economist: Liberalism in Brazil - The almost-lost cause of freedom: Why is economic liberalism so taboo in socially liberal Brazil?

Newsweek: Bristol Palin’s Abstinence About-Face

Economist: Bihar's remarkable recovery - Bihar has blossomed under Nitish Kumar. But his reforms need deeper roots

Economist: The Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger - A union of pariahs

Economist: A special report on social networking

Slate: Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith shows how not to switch parties

Economist: The party of No - Barack Obama has revived the Republicans. But they show few signs of using their new influence constructively

Economist: Populists and bankers - The populist left meets the populist right to hammer the Fed

CSMonitor: Supreme Court won't halt Noriega's extradition to France

Economist: Capitalism in China - The spirit of enterprise fades: The cradle of China’s start-up firms is showing its age

Slate: What happens to 3-D glasses after you drop them in the bin at the theater?
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Slate: (Primer) - The Supreme Court Gets Ready To Turn on the Corporate Fundraising Spigot

Newsweek: The Sweeping Impact of SCOTUS's Campaign-Spending Decision

New Yorker: A Bad Judgment

TIME: Supreme Court Campaign-Finance Ruling - Big Business Win?

CSMonitor: Supreme Court - Campaign-finance limits violate free speech

Slate: The misguided theories behind Citizens United v. FEC

Salon: This Week in Crazy - Clarence Thomas: The Supreme Court judge brings insanity to the campaign finance decision, and inaugurates our new weekly feature

Atlantic: It's Not Crazy To Say That Corporate Ads Count As Associational Speech

Newsweek: Volcker - Bernanke Didn't Go Far Enough

Economist: Obama and the banks - Glass-Steagall lite

Atlantic: Don't Celebrate Obama's New Bank Breaking Effort Yet

WSJ: Obama Proposes New Bank Regulations

Salon: Conan O'Brien & the End of "The Tonight Show"

New Republic: Rogue State - A Case Against Delaware

New Republic: Meditations On Dostoyevsky

TIME: Indira Gandhi - Death in the Garden

TIME: Q&A - Is There Life After Death?

FP: The Real Jimmy Carter - America’s 39th president was not the weak and ineffective leader of popular caricature. But Barack Obama could still learn from his failings.

Economist: Chile's presidential election - Piñera promises a gallop

USAToday: 'Lost' philosophy - Something to think about

Newsweek: The Psychology of Missed Field Goals - Was Nate Kaeding's Performance Part of a Choking Outbreak?

New Republic: The Conservative Turn - Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Book Review)

Slate: Haiti's Other Towns after the earthquake

Economist: Pets in the recession - Howls for help

Economist: Antitrust law and football - Out of many, one: Is the NFL more than the sum of its parts?

TIME: Why Air America Will Be Missed

Atlantic: Will Obama's Bank Plan End Moral Hazard?

FP: How the Court's campaign-finance ruling will damage our credibility
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
New Republic: How would I describe the Haiti coverage? Redundant.

Salon: Why can't the NYT and WP agree on Haiti? How the media's conflicting coverage of race, class and the earthquake evokes memories of Hurricane Katrina.

Slate: Why Staten Island—home to three members of Jersey Shore—is New York City's most mocked borough

Slate: How can we tell if NFL cornerbacks are any good?

FP: The big three that need to forgive Haiti's debt

FP: A visit to Libya - First Impressions

Slate: Vancouver - Notes From a Native Daughter

TIME: The Volcker-Steagall Act - Do the Obama administration's new Wall Street proposals really address the problem?

Newsweek: Paul Volcker and Regulating Wall Street

Slate: Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a real live boy

Atlantic: Citizens United - Winners And Losers

Slate: The Supreme Court kills campaign finance reform in Citizens United

Atlantic: The Autumn of the Multitaskers - Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy

Economist: Freedom to spend - The Supreme Court rules that businesses and unions may fund political messages in elections

New Yorker: On Rebuilding Haiti

Economist: Chile's presidential election - Right again

SI: Roger Maris' family hopes their dad will make the Hall of Fame

Newsweek: How Technology Can Transform Cities

Newsweek: Rare Tobacco Leaves Infuse Cuba's Cohiba Cigars

Slate: The Deep End is a shiny take on life at a white-shoe law firm

Foreign Affairs: The Better Half - Efforts to provide the world's women with economic and political power are more than just a worthy moral crusade: they represent perhaps the best strategy for pursuing development and stability across the globe.

Slate: Orthodox Judaism finally begins to face gay rights

Atlantic: YouTube Enters the Movie Rental Business

TIME: YouTube Movie-Rental Service Set to Offer Sundance Films

TIME: Air America Goes Off the Air

New Republic: Obama’s Dick Morris moment

Atlantic: Making Sense of the Golden Globes

New Republic: Inside the Messy Collapse of the DCPost

CSMonitor: Obama at one year - New realism in foreign policy

SI: Teams that got the most bang for their buck last decade

CNN: Rep. Ron Paul weighs in on the state of the nation (video interview)

TIME: The Hemisphere - HISPANIOLA: A History of Hate

CNN: Is hearsay evidence admissible in the Peterson case?

TIME: How to Quit Facebook, Twitter
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