Milking the Poor: One Family’s Fall Into Homelessness

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 12, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,927 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)

The Story Behind the Story

With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition. A case-study of our post-journalistic age.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 20 minutes (5,217 words)

Dear President Bush,

Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. An open letter to President George W. Bush

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 35 minutes (8,752 words)

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession

Dashed hopes, less sex, even more Sisyphean labor for women—what the histories of the Depression era tell us about middle-class families in crisis, both then and now

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,592 words)

Overdose

The health-care crisis no candidate is addressing? Too many doctors

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 2007
Length: 6 minutes (1,576 words)

Waiting for the Weekend

A whole two days off from work, in which we can do what we please, has only recently become a near-universal right. A history of leisure

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 1, 1991
Length: 33 minutes (8,262 words)

The Final Days of Merrill Lynch

Last September, as Wall Street turned to rubble and panic threatened to come unleashed, Ken Lewis, the CEO of Bank of America, agreed to swallow one of the country’s most toxic investment houses.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 27 minutes (6,905 words)

Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger

With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has managed to create something entirely new: a story of emotionally uncomplicated, physically threatening, non-morally-anguished Jews dealing out spaghetti-western justice to Nazis.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,588 words)

Two Ways of Looking at a War Zone

Is Fallujah a showroom model of American success in Iraq? Only in a limited sense

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jun 24, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,035 words)