You Have No Idea What Health Costs

If You Did, You Might Just Want Real Reform

Author: Ezra Klein
Source: Washington Post
Published: Sep 20, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,448 words)

Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good

Source: Nieman Lab
Published: Sep 23, 2009
Length: 43 minutes (10,888 words)

The California Experiment

Busted budgets, failing schools, overcrowded prisons, gridlocked government—California no longer beckons as America’s promised land. Except, that is, in one area: creating a new energy economy. But is its path one the rest of the nation can follow?

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,867 words)

Glenn Beck becomes damaged goods

The radio phenom takes over the morning zoo, makes fun of miscarriages and flames out.

Source: Salon
Published: Sep 22, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,588 words)

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Source: Wired
Published: Sep 21, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,892 words)

The Most Popular Politician on Earth

For nearly seven years, he’s done a spectacular job as Brazil’s president. But can Lula resist the temptation to throw it away?

Source: Newsweek
Published: Sep 22, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,462 words)

Missile Defense Didn’t Win the Cold War

The real doomsday machine, the Russian response to Star Wars, and other Soviet-era mysteries finally decoded.

Source: Foreign Policy
Published: Sep 22, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,410 words)

The Referendum

Recently an editor asked me for an essay about arrested adolescence, joking: “Of course, I thought of you.”

Published: Sep 17, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,373 words)

The Jet-Propelled Couch

Published: Dec 1, 1954
Length: 25 minutes (6,251 words)

See Jerry Run. Again.

California is still living with the consequences of Jerry Brown’s first governorship. Now the state is poised to elect him again.

Published: Sep 24, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,426 words)