Environment
The Hard Sell
The Consensus on Big Banks is Beginning to Crack
Obama's Sinister Offensive
Breakfast and Health Reform--What Could Be More Fun?
It's too early to guarantee that health care reform passes. It's not too early to think about what should happen next. What will it take to make the final reform plan work--to make sure that it really provides affordable coverage while realigining the health care system to produce higher quality, less costly care? And what can be done now, as the debate moves onto the House and Senate floors, in order to make success more likely? READ MORE >>
Last Standish
Standish, Michigan It's two p.m. on a workday, and the casino parking lot is completely full. Hundreds of people have come for the $20 gambling coupons offered to those willing to donate blood. Turnout for the drive was "above and beyond" expectations, says Frank Cloutier, a spokesman for the Saginaw Chippewa Indians, who run the 800-slot complex. The nurses are already turning people away two hours before closing, and they will soon run out of blood bags. READ MORE >>
TAKE A HIKE
If readers of The New Republic’s website will let their eyes stroll down the right side of the page, they’ll discover a blog called “The Avenue.” It’s not the sexiest title, and it’s not about the latest White House rumors, but it’s one of the best running commentaries on how the federal government, and state and local governments are trying, or failing, to rebuild the economy. READ MORE >>
Uncertainty, Climate Models, And Geoengineering
The uproar over Superfreakonomics has led to a lot of smart posts being written on the pitfalls associated with "geoengineering" as a response to global warming. Now, as I've mentioned before, "geoengineering" is often used as a catch-all term for a wide variety of schemes to artificially reduce the temperature of the earth, but Nate Silver homes in on the two most audacious ideas out there: READ MORE >>
Will November 7 > August 20?
From the conclusion of the Guardian's extremely thorough anatomy of what went wrong with the August 20 election in Afghanistan: [A] run-off is likely to suffer from many of the same problems as the first vote. READ MORE >>
Daily Treatment, Full of Irony and Contradiction
The Congressional Budget Office tells us what legislation will cost, but can't always answer that question accurately. Lori Montgomery explains. Some legislators representing rural states are very keen to keep down the cost of health care reform, except when it means paying their home-state hospitals less. Eric Pianin and Mary Agnes Carey have the story. READ MORE >>
A few things stand out upon a first reading of Obama's official Sudan policy announcement, TNR's copy of which is pasted below. READ MORE >>
