Friends and family say goodbye to Marines in the 3rd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, deploying to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom November 3, 2009 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Once in Afghanistan, the unit will fall under the... Full story...
A reader writes: "Everybody in the family played Scrabble and took great pride in hoarding Ks and Qs and slapping them down in long, fancy words on triple-letter scores.
Steven Simon writes at (pdf) the Council on Foreign Relations about what an Israeli strike against Iran might mean for US interests.
Frank Furedi hates that current "educational fads are based on the premise that because we live in a new, digitally driven society, the intellectual legacy of the past and the experience of grown-ups have little significance for the schooling of.
Erik Stokstad reports that a group of researchers has found that Americans waste about 40% of their food: Food waste is usually estimated through consumer interviews or garbage inspections.
Choire hoists the standard: At a bar last night, I was talking to someone smart who made an excellent point: that a very quiet, revolutionary act in the history of publishing had just taken place.
A reader writes: In your post there was a small but odd detail that caught my eye. You write "until Christians start condemning the greed and debt and consumerism of the past two decades as morally wrong, they have no.
The latest review of Sarah Palin's work of magical realism by someone who knows the truth comes to the same conclusion as everyone else: In Going Rogue, Palin mentions none of Wooten's military record, but cites many charges that were.
Jonah Lehrer reviews Stanislas Dehaene's new book: One of the most intriguing findings of this new science of reading is that the literate brain actually has two distinct pathways for reading.
A reader writes: I disagree completely with you and Packer. Yes, as a person-under-thirty I came of age politically under the nightmare of Bush and I campaigned vigorously and voted for Obama.
I remember very vividly a heated argument with Karl Rove over eight years ago in which I worried about spending and deficits.
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