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I may be a bit late in weighing in, but a number of people in objecting to this week's New Yorker cover have worried that, while the image's satire may be evident to the magazine's erudite readership, it may be lost on others. Jason does so here; Wolf Blitzer, much more stridently, says the same.   READ MORE >>

The 25 billion Zimbabwean dollar note, currently trading for $1.35 on the open market, is selling for $40 on eBay.   --Ben Crair READ MORE >>

A lot of people have been wondering how, with the rise of young, so-called post-racial politicians, the old guard of civil-rights leaders will adapt. READ MORE >>

In a speech in West Virginia earlier this week, Barack Obama attacked John McCain for opposing Jim Webb's "21st Century G.I. Bill," the original 1946 version of which paid full tuition and living costs for veterans enrolling in college. As this helpful Boston Globe piece explains, READ MORE >>

Frequenters of the local zoo are advised to hold their noses and enter the amphibian house. Its residents aren't the zoo's cuddliest, but they're probably among its rarest: Amphibians have suffered not only from the usual suspects of habitat loss and global warming in recent years, but also from the rapid spread of the chytrid fungus, which infects their respiratory skin. Extinction currently threatens half the world's species. READ MORE >>

Since seizing power in a 1989 coup, the government of Omar Al Bashir has terrorized Sudan's outlying regions and neighbors--killing or displacing millions, all in the name of maximizing its own influence. The events of recent months in Darfur and elsewhere show that this strategy has not changed. * Events of the past few months * Population movements of the past few months * Violence initiated or exacerbated by the Sudanese regime since it took power in 1989 Dark Red Arrows READ MORE >>

Every hour of every day, people send angry emails they soon regret to people they barely know (or even worse, their friends and loved ones). Many people have learned a simple rule: Don't send an angry email in the heat of the moment.  File it, and wait a day before you send it.  But many others haven't learned the rule or don't always follow it.  Technology could easily help. READ MORE >>

Adam Kirsch has an excellent piece today on the Arts & Letters page of The New York Sun comparing Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s memoirs. Jason recently excavated the books’ backstories, but the critic Kirsch addresses their surfaces. Using Lionel Trilling’s “Sincerity and Authenticity” as a lens, he ascribes the former attribute to Clinton and the latter to Obama: READ MORE >>

The passing of conservative icon and National Review founder William F. Buckley has given TNR contributors pause to reflect on his legacy. John B. Judis, one of Buckley’s biographers,writes that “the key to Buckley is to understand that he was a rebel, but not a READ MORE >>