Notes on a Scandal: Interview with Jenny Sanford

For the record, Jenny Sanford and most of her friends were as shocked as the rest of America when they learned about Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with an Argentinian divorcee.

Source: Vogue
Published: Aug 1, 2009
Length: 34 minutes (8,701 words)

Dream of a Common Language. Sueño de un Idioma Común.

The graduates of a radical bilingual education program at Alicia R. Chacón International, in El Paso, would have no trouble reading either of these headlines. What can they teach the rest of us about the future of Texas?

Source: Texas Monthly
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,525 words)

A School Bus for Shamsia

Even before the men with acid came, the Mirwais Mena School for Girls was surrounded by enemies. It stood on the outskirts of Kandahar, barely 20 miles from the hometown of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban’s founder.

Published: Aug 17, 2009
Length: 21 minutes (5,329 words)

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

Source: Time
Published: Aug 21, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,240 words)

Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

Intelligence by itself doesn’t make you rational. Thinking rationally demands mental skills that some of us don’t have and many of us don’t use

Source: UofT Magazine
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,812 words)

Blackwater: CIA Assassins?

The beginning of a long relationship between Blackwater, Erik Prince and the CIA.

Source: The Nation
Published: Aug 20, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,435 words)

The GOP Has Become a Party of Nihilists

Author: Joe Klein
Source: Time
Published: Aug 20, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,435 words)

What Would Get Americans Biking to Work?

Decent parking.

Source: Slate
Published: Aug 17, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,429 words)

The Women’s Crusade

In the 19th Century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.

Published: Aug 17, 2009
Length: 22 minutes (5,711 words)

The New American Religion Behind the Growing American Rage

And the Oklahoma man — eighth-grade teacher by day, militant blogger by night — who may personify it more than any of the conservatives who, when the town halls pass, may be pointing the way to a holy war that goes way beyond health care

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 18, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,480 words)