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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.