Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School

It was, in fact, a no-brainer, a perfect metaphor. The Taliban closed schools; the Americans opened them.

Author: Joe Klein
Source: Time
Published: Apr 15, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,021 words)

The Party’s Over: China’s Endgame

Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,597 words)

Walking With The Comrades

Gandhians with a Gun? Arundhati Roy plunges into the sea of Gondi people to find some answers…

Source: Outlook India
Published: Mar 29, 2010
Length: 147 minutes (36,945 words)

The Estrogen Dilemma

New science is showing that estrogen’s effects on women’s minds and bodies may depend upon when they first start taking it. What should you do?

Published: Apr 14, 2010
Length: 30 minutes (7,604 words)

The Huckster

Need to pick a good prison? Alan Ellis can help. Attorney, author, and self-publicist, Ellis is the creator of a new legal niche—one that places him in the time-honored American tradition of the fast-talking salesman.

Published: Apr 1, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,761 words)

Untimely

What was at stake in the spat between Henry Luce and Harold Ross?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 19, 2010
Length: 22 minutes (5,687 words)

Clash of the Bearded Ones

[Not single-page] Hipsters, Hasids, and the Williamsburg street.

Published: Apr 11, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,065 words)

In Maryland, George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic and a missing Mothership

Source: Washington Post
Published: Apr 12, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,058 words)

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

Source: Washington Post
Published: Mar 8, 2009
Length: 34 minutes (8,713 words)

Beating Obesity

By 2015, four out of 10 Americans may be obese. Until last year, the author was one of them.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: May 1, 2010
Length: 30 minutes (7,543 words)