Later
What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
The Murderers of Mexico
How to write about Mexico’s drug war? There are only a limited number of ways that readers can be reminded of the desperate acts of human sacrifice that go on every day in this country, or of the by now calamitous statistics: the nearly 28,000 people who have been killed in drug-related battles or assassinations since President Felipe Calderón took power almost four years ago, the thousands of kidnappings, the wanton acts of rape and torture, the growing number of orphaned children.
Traumatic brain injury leaves an often-invisible, life-altering wound
The doctor begins with an apology because the questions are rudimentary, almost insultingly so. But Robert Warren, fresh off the battlefield in Afghanistan and a surgeon’s table, doesn’t seem to mind. Yes, he knows how old he is: 20. He knows his Army rank: specialist. He knows that it’s Thursday, that it’s June, that the year is 1020. Quickly, he corrects the small stumble: “It’s 2010.”
The Master Architect
Interviewing Albert Speer, master planner of Berlin and Hitler’s chief architect. “‘I wish I’d been an architect!’ he often used to say.”
As the World Burns
How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.
Chasing Fox
The loud, cartoonish blood sport that’s engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN — and is making our body politic delirious.
Want to Prevent Gay Teen Suicide? Legalize Marriage Equality
Growing up as a gay kid, life is a difficult puzzle. You keep getting crushes on the wrong people. If you’re a girl, you’re supposed to be going all gooey inside for Matt and Jason, the hotties on the lacrosse team. And if you’re Matt, you’re supposed to be pining for Ashley or Jessica — not yearning to run away to a jam-band festival with Jason.
Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans
On a sultry July morning, Cao, the first-term Republican congressman from New Orleans, walks out of his house in the Venetian Isles neighborhood in the easternmost part of the city, a low tentacle of land rising, just barely, above the waters of Bayou Sauvage. A dawn fog sits heavily over the adjacent swamp; a dead palm leans in memoriam to Hurricane Katrina (or maybe Gustav; both of them devastated his house).
The Heart of Los Angeles
When Vincent Edward Scully first came to Los Angeles to broadcast Dodgers baseball games in 1958, he worried because he could not find the essence of the city. The center. The heart. He was 30 years old, and he had some clear ideas about what it took to call a baseball game.
Tea and Crackers
How corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
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