Obama’s Bad Cops

Clinton’s played the heavy with Iran, Russia, and even Israel—and her sometimes hawkish views are finding favor with the president.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Apr 23, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,091 words)

High Stakes Criticism: An Interview with Greil Marcus

Source: PopMatters
Published: Apr 26, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,239 words)

California’s Pipe Dream

A heroic system of dams, pumps, and canals can’t stave off a water crisis.

Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 10 minutes (2,598 words)

The Pill at 50: Sex, Freedom and Paradox

Source: Time
Published: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,468 words)

Guru: Hard-Earned

Tupac is dead, Biggie is dead, but they’re still fairly iconic 14 years after their deaths. Guru from Gang Starr, who died at 43 on Tuesday after months in a medically-induced coma, passed before his time, too, but he was different from those iconic stars in basically every other way.

Author: David Roth
Source: The Awl
Published: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

A Marine General at War

Gen. James Mattis thinks about when, and how, American troops should put their lives at risk.

Source: Slate
Published: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,244 words)

A Canterbury Tale

The battle within the Church of England to allow women to be bishops.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 26, 2010
Length: 36 minutes (9,115 words)

Politico’s Mike Allen, the Man the White House Wakes Up To

The daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Published: Apr 21, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,121 words)

Diary

Published: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,271 words)

Publish or Perish

Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 26, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,054 words)