Testing, Testing

The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 14, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,058 words)

North Star

Populism, politics, and the power of Sarah Palin.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Dec 7, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,177 words)

Either/Or

Sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.

Author: Ariel Levy
Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 30, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

Lunch with M.

Undercover with a Michelin inspector.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 23, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,462 words)

What’s the Recipe?

Our hunger for cookbooks

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 23, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,385 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)

Defending the Arsenal

In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 16, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,663 words)

Flesh of Your Flesh

Should you eat meat?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,021 words)

Rap Sheet

Why is American history so murderous?

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 40 minutes (10,188 words)

Premium Harmony

They’ve been married for ten years and for a long time everything was O.K.—swell—but now they argue. Now they argue quite a lot. It’s really all the same argument. It has circularity. It is, Ray thinks, like a dog track. When they argue, they’re like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don’t see it. You see the rabbit.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Nov 9, 2009
Length: 46 minutes (11,609 words)