Headlines from February 23, 2009
- Treasury advisors preparing "the largest bankruptcy loan ever" in case GM and Chrysler declare need.
- Sachs must-read: There is little reason to fear a decade of stagnation, much less a depression.
- If you are OK with the FDIC, you are OK with nationalization.
- Many elderly are joining the unemployed ranks, unable to be out of work.
- Latvia goes the way of Iceland and collapses.
- Instapaper for the commute: The Axis of Upheaval.
- Traveling around Ukraine to test if Russia has its sights on conquering.
- Profile of Jon and Ruth Jordan, CrimeSpree magazine's editors and the crime-fiction world's wheelers and dealers.
- Long profile on how Rahm Emanuel pulls strings as the "Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself."
- Notes from a "Gitmo Party," thrown for lawyers to celebrate Guantanamo's closure.
- Insurance company denies musicians due to high risk, despite having Iggy Pop as spokesperson.
- Profile of the teenager who traffic-controls Brooklyn's towncars.
- Art Fag City wins Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant.
- Harper Perennial blog spotlights a great short story every week for a year.
- Trilogy meter of how various movies-in-threes rank.
- "My Ideas for Staged Photos Set Me Apart From Other Wedding Photographers."
- "We missed the biggest Middle East peace opportunity of the decade, just so we could keep saying 'axis of evil.'" Let's talk to Iran.
- Obama will not continue Bush's missionary rhetoric to spread democracy--diplomacy will be quieter, rebranded.
- Slums are innovative and hopeful; improving them allows urban migrants a level of security--and a future.
- There is a way to wipe out AIDS, and it's going to cost $85 billion and some civil liberties.
- Geography professors use satellite imagery to identify three buildings that may house Osama bin Laden.
- Video-game-like software aids disaster planning: How to save New York from rising sea levels.
- Photos: Visual type around NYC; New York transit typos.
- I fear Muzak's passing will only drag us deeper into the cultural abyss. In praise of Muzak.
- In Iceland, women lead the recovery, celebrate Husband's Day, fear the "Glass Cliff."
- "Her kidneys are ruined...she's got calcification in her skin; her vessels leak." Inside the N.I.H.'s undiagnosed diseases program.
- An interview with Jon Fasman, who's been named a finalist in the Young Lions Fiction Award.
- From 2003, Fasman's "What They Weren't Worth," for TMN.
- Video: Are you the favorite person of anybody?