Revisionaries

How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks.

Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 15 minutes (3,833 words)

The First 3,650 Days

As we move into the next era of American history, let’s take a moment to look back ten years and see how we got ourselves here — and discover the biggest thing we learned about ourselves

Source: Esquire
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 15 minutes (3,818 words)

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: A Primer

What you need to know about the organization that gave us the Christmas bomber.

Published: Jan 1, 2010
Length: 4 minutes (1,248 words)

Interview: Elizabeth Warren

The financial watchdog on the trouble the American middle class is in, who’s responsible for it, and what needs to be done to fix it.

Published: Jan 1, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,406 words)

Real Estate in Cape Coral Is Far From a Recovery

As we navigate this speculator’s paradise turned financial wasteland, Mr. Joseph stands at the front of the bus in a green polo shirt, highlighting specimens like this one: a white stucco house fronted by palm trees and topped by a Spanish tile roof on a canal emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. It last sold in 2005 for $850,000. Yours today for $273,000.

Published: Jan 2, 2010
Length: 15 minutes (3,924 words)

Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide?

Source: Time
Published: Jan 11, 2010
Length: 10 minutes (2,594 words)

A Thousand Points of Hate

We’ve got terrorists around the world on the run. It’s where they’re running to that’s the problem.

Source: Newsweek
Published: Jan 2, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,335 words)

One Forty Plus

The Anatomy of a Smear: How the Reigning King of Special Effects Got Caught in One.

Author: John Mayer
Source: Tumblr
Published: Dec 26, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,332 words)

What’s a Bailed-Out Banker Really Worth?

How people are paid at the top in a free-market system has always been a contentious issue, especially in bad times. Babe Ruth’s most famous quip was not about baseball but about salaries. When asked in 1930 if it was right that he should be making more money than President Hoover, he replied, “I had a better year than he did.”

Published: Dec 29, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,676 words)

In aftermath of Fort Hood, community haunted by clues that went unheeded

Source: Washington Post
Published: Dec 31, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,898 words)