Anti-Statism in America

Why Americans hate to love government.

Published: Nov 11, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,244 words)

The Science of Success

Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,271 words)

Sextortion at Eisenhower High

Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time

Source: GQ
Published: Jul 1, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

Making Health Care Better

When I have asked them whether they have any hope that medicine will change, they have tended to say yes. When I have asked them whether anybody has already begun to succeed, they have tended to mention the same name: Brent James.

Published: Nov 3, 2009
Length: 34 minutes (8,636 words)

Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood

Fort Hood – III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas

Source: Whitehouse.gov
Published: Nov 10, 2009
Length: 26 minutes (6,656 words)

Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?

What is the matter with the two-state solution? To this day, it remains the only outcome that appears attuned to reality; the only one that enjoys broad support. Its rough outlines no longer constitute much of a mystery. Yet all this does not so much answer the question as it reframes it: What basic ingredients have been missing from the conventional two-state concept? Why, so widely embraced in the abstract, has it been so stubbornly rejected in practice?

Published: Dec 3, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,054 words)

Robert Downey Jr.: The Second Greatest Actor in the World

Finally back on the A-list, Robert Downey Jr. is getting the respect — and the money — he deserves. But is he getting just a little dizzy up there?

Author: Scott Raab
Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,853 words)

The bitter tears of Johnny Cash

The untold story of Johnny Cash, protest singer and Native American activist, and his feud with the music industry

Source: Salon
Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,642 words)

Constant Comment

How Kathleen Parker became America’s most-read woman columnist.

Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,819 words)

Lift and Separate

Why is feminism still so divisive?

Author: Ariel Levy
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 16, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,139 words)