Headlines from October 23, 2008
- Imprisoned GOP strategist explains how he tried to rig an election.
- Surowiecki: The American state that's the closest to a socialist paradise is, of course, Palin's own Alaska.
- On commitment contracts and social pressure, the psychology of encouraging friends to vote.
- With U.S. home foreclosures up 71 percent, Americans try and redefine where the heart is.
- Op: Magaret Atwood on debt, sin, and the chance to remember old values.
- To be confident of a successful scare, you'd lay some groundwork first. How to scare children, stock markets.
- Roe v. Wade v. Bush v. Gore: Legal experts weigh in on the question Palin couldn't answer--what's the worst Supreme Court decision?
- Video: Hollywood directors' attack ads for McCain, Sarah Palin meets Woody Allen.
- They couldn't have popped into J. Crew or Ann Taylor? Palin's clothing spree matters because her public image relies on her not being a Neiman's shopper.
- Where Obama's putting all those funds: owning the airwaves, practically removing McCain from the election.
- Surely you remember that scene in Election, when Matthew Broderick's character tossed a couple of ballots in the trash bin and changed the outcome of the election? Yeah, that happens in real life, too.
- Instapaper for the commute: The remaking of John McCain.
- Shopping for the clothes you can buy for $150,000; "no-Palin-costumes-please" poster for your Halloween party.
- Salon's slant a bit evident in "the punditocracy's seven biggest blunders of the 2008 election."
- Positive stories about Obama rose as his numbers climbed; negative stories about McCain rose as his numbers fell.
- All the bad numbers you need today to be worried about the economy.
- Europe's a blue state, Asia is red.
- Verlyn Klinkenborg on our bright new world, polluted with light.
- TMN obviously goes to the wrong conventions: Journalists to receive free guns at firearms exhibit.
- Remembering the golden age of August 2008 in a two-month-old magazine.
- Judging the current world of graphic design in China.
- A survey of signs in New York between 14th and 42nd streets.
- For proud families, the Irish language is making a comeback, but at what cost for Ireland's increasingly immigrant population?
- Mad Men creator discusses the influence of Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road on the show.
- Audio: Striking similarity between Queen's "We Will Rock You" and Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
- Top five reasons Luke Skywalker is a complete idiot.