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by Brian E. Gray, Los Angeles Times
For vice president that is. Would the Constitution allow the former president or Arnold to run for No. 2?
by Jorie Graham, New Yorker
by D. Nurkse, New Yorker
by Daniil Kharms, New Yorker
by Barry Goldensohn, Slate
by Benedict Carey, New York Times
The new studies reveal a subconscious brain that is far more active, purposeful and independent than previously known.
by Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
The man who shopped too much: A customer review.
by Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
After five years in Paris, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik returns to the Big Apple with Through the Children's Gate and falls in love all over again.
by Michael Blanding, Boston Globe
The service of one meal, from cocktail to digestif, is an event that's both chaotic and highly synchronized.
by Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
A journalistic assessment of Hillary Clinton's cleavage became the most improbable presidnetial campaign controversy yet.
by David Finkel, Washington Post
U.S. officer, wanting to save interpreter's wounded child, faces a snag.
by Rivka Galchen, New York Times
With each passing year, my mother's undiminished power over me felt, I think for both of us, increasingly humiliating.
by Simon Elegant, Time
There are roughly 300 million adults in China under age 30, a demographic cohort that serves as a bridge between the closed, xenophobic China of the Mao years and the globalized economic powerhouse that it is becoming.
by David Amsden, New York Magazine
He has a loving wife, a small child—and sex with men on the side. How the internet has made it easier than ever to lead a detection-proof double life.
by Dave Shulman, LA Weekly
The possible Nobel laureate on his dreams, his alt-weekly past and, oh yeah, The Simpsons Movie.
by Carol Rumens, Poetry London
by Grant Tracey, The Pedestal Magazine
by Theodora Brack, 3:AM Magazine
by Steve Hyden, A.V. Club
Based on the hoity-toity "It's Not TV" image HBO likes to promote for itself, shouldn't I expect more as a subscriber?
by Maureen Fan, Washington Post
Confucianism is enjoying a resurgence in China, as more and more Chinese seek ways to adapt to a culture in which corruption has spread and mateialism has becoming a driving value.
by Edward Hirsch, Slate
by Glyn Maxwell, New Yorker
by Vera Pavlova, New Yorker
by A. L. Kennedy, New Yorker
by Andrew Martin, New York Times
Hugo-size me? Not a bad name for a sequel.
by Mohja Kahf, Washington Post
Does wearing a veil make you less American than wearing a yarmulke or a Mennonite bonnet?
by Dennis Overbye, New York Times
The history of physics is full of bumps that could have been revolutionary but have disappeared like ghosts in the night.
by Gary Kamiya, Salon
They may be invisible and their art unsung. But in the age of blogging, editors are needed more than ever.
by Adam Cohen, New York Times
In the looming showdown, the founders and the Constitution are firmly on Congress's side.
by Gary Kamiya, Salon
What would the earth look like if humans suddenly disappeared? An audacious new book imagines a people-free planet, and restores our sense of awe.
by Neil Hallows, BBC News
The title of JK Rowling's final boy wizard book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has long been a source of excited debate among fans. What exactly are hallows?
by Kristin Henderson, Washington Post
Less than 1 percent of the U.S. population serves in our military. In a time of war, what should that mean to the rest of us?
by Colbert I. King, Washington Post
Washington D.C., is one of those places where the sweep of centuries can be compressed into a single day. Wednesday provided an example.
by Noah Feldman, New York Times
The 12 years I spent at a yeshiva day school made me who I am. Now the school doesn't acknowledge who I've become. A reflection on religion, identity and belonging.
by The Economist
The economic consequences of the rise of English.
by Steven Johnson, Discover
Nothing—laughter is simply how we connect.
by Sven Birkerts, New York Times
How you respond to this extended account of bitter frustration and longing very much depends on whether you can will yourself to invest in an essentially disembodied presence.
by Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal
Drinking, smoking, shooting and sticking it to bureaucrats.
by Emily Prager, New York Times
I left Manhattan a year ago, after a lifetime there. I was annoyed at spending $20 for a hamburger, depressed by designer boutiques on Bleecker Street, weary of the hovering spector of Al Qaeda, and still grieving over the demise of the Thalia. I was getting old waiting for the real estate bubble to burst and the city to regain its vibrancy. I decided to move myself and my 12-year-old daughter, Lulu — whom I had adopted as a baby in China — from the old capital of the world to the new: to make a home in Shanghai, a city of the future.
by Robert J Samuelson, Washington Post
I have always liked commas, but I seem to be in a shrinking minority.
by Ian Austen, New York Times
Once a symbol of cross-border friendship, Lee Street has become a source of anxiety for security officials in both the United States and Canada who have stepped up border security since Sept. 11, 2001. But a proposal by a joint border task force to block Lee and two other unguarded streets that cross between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt., has, if anything, united the towns.
by Marian Burros, New York Times
If you are reading this anytime after dawn on Wendesday, you are probably too late to make a fashion statement and simultaneously keep the world safe from plastic bags.
by James Reiss, Slate
by Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon
Air travel is the latest guilt trip for the environmentally conscious consumer. Here's how flying contributes to global warming and what is being done to cool the jets.
by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
The British critic A.A. Gill loves the English language but detests the English people.
by Markus Prior, Washington Post
Decades into the "information age," the public is as uninformed as before the rise of cable television and the internet.
by David Ferry, New Yorker
by Antonya Nelson, New Yorker
by Jerry Adler, Newsweek
Doctors are reinventing how they treat sudden cardiac arrest, which is fatal 95 percent of the time. A report from the border between life and death.
by Jeannie Marie Laskas, Washington Post
If you don't have something nice to say...
by Christopher Shea, Boston Globe
The idea that adults should be playing with their kids is a modern invention — and not necessarily a good one.
by Trevor Corson, New York Times
What we need is a renaissance in American sushi; to discover for ourselves — and perhaps to remind the Japanese — what sushi is all about. A trip to the neighborhood sushi bar should be a social exchange that celebrate, with a sense of balance and moderation, the wondrous variety of the sea.
by Patrick T. Reardon, Chiacgo Tribune
As a book reader (and as someone who enjoys the physical object that is a book), I've come to identify this particular smell as being intricately connected with the beauty and wonder that great art books and artfully produced books can provide.
by Roy Blount Jr., New York Times
From Thomas Jefferson to M. F. K. Fisher to Dvaid Sedaris, Americans have long been passionate about food.
by David Crystal, The Guardian
Lynne Truss and others demand a rigidly standard English, but our language has fewer unbreakable rules than they want.
by Terry Eagleton, Guardian
British literature's long and rich tradition of politically engaged writes has come to an end.
by Jen Graves, The Stranger
Scientists say it could be done. And my better half is the perfect candidate. All I have to do is convince him.
by Robert Sharoff, New York Times
Of the course, the whole idea of having a second home is to get away from it all. For most people, that involves a plane or car trip to some unspoiled corner of nature.
Others, however, jsut take the elevator.
by Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times
Indonesia's kopi luwak is a rare delicacy of peculiar provenance — beans plucked from the droppings of wild civets.
by Jack Shafer, Slate
It's almost as long as the Manhattan telephone book.
by Peter Miller, National Geographic Magazine
A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are. The study of swarm intelligence is providing insights that can help humans manage complex systems, from truck routing to military robots.
by Kathryn Banakis, Washington Post
Cooking for one is its own luxury: of experimentation, of self-expression an dof popcorn for dinner, if that's what you feel like.
by Robert J. Samuelson, Washington Post
The popularity of happiness research suggest that economists and other social scientists think they can devise public policies to elevate the nation's feel-good quotient. This is an illusion.
by Anthony Doerr, Orion
Why the Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most incredible photograph ever taken.
by Kim Severson, New York Times
For the rarefield palate that can appreciate the soft, immediate pleasure of an inexpensive candy bar, it's not difficult to give the edge to sweets from the realm of the queen.
by Leslie Kaufman, New York Times
The key to long-term success is not so much the food but the pacing and organization of the meals.
by Motoko Rich, New York Times
In keeping with the intricately plotted novels themselves, the truth about Harry Potter and reading is not quite so straightforward a success story.
by Sally Squires, Washington Post
For the estimated 12 million Americans with food allergies, eating can be quite an adventure.
by Lisa Russ Spaar, Slate
by Robert V. Camuto, Washington Post
On an ancient pilgrim route in france, hikers and the faithful cross paths.
by George Johnson, New York Times
The Harvard Observatory holds more than half a million images constituting humanity's only record of a century's worth of sky.
by Rebecca Traister, Salon
As the ratings for her evening news broadcast continue to drop, why is Couric trading her controlled public persona for embarrassed confessions?
by John Ortved, Vanity Fair
A cartoon family whacked America's funny bone in 1989, eventually becoming the longest-running TV comedy ever. As The Simpsons jumps to the big screen this month, not everyone involved—including the writers,t he voices, and Rupert Murdoch—agrees on what has made in a pop phenomenon.
by Rebecca Traister, Salon
With raves for her book dissecting modernist marriages and a hot new journalism job at NYU, has feminism's enfant terrible finally grown up?
by Joel Achenbach, Washington Post
Growing up in 1970s Florida, I was a small cog in America's Grand Integration Project. We thought it worked. Did it?
by Sharon LaFraniere, New York Times
One might ask why any sane person would ride 419 miles through the Sahara in a railroad hopper, scorched by a blazing sun, surrounded by goats, fated to pass 17 hours watching desperate companions relieve themselves over the side of the car.
For one, it is free. And two, it is virtually the only way to get to Zouerate.
by Kara Jessella, New York Times
With so much of the job involving technology and with a focus now on finding and sharing information beyond just what is available in books, a new type of librarian is emerging — the kind that, according to the web site Librarian Avengers, is "looking to put the 'hep cat' in cataloguing."
by William Saletan, New York Times
Why should we accept our lot as a gift? Because the loss of usch reverence would change our moral landscape.
by Chris Weeg, The Stranger
There will be more lost hikers, more searches, and more deaths on Washington State's storm-damaged hiking trails this summer. So what goes through a person's mind when a walk in the woods turns into a near-death experience?
by Akiko Busch, New York Times
It seems clear now, in that way that the unexpected can sometimes take hold of intent, thwarting and subverting it, that following the path of the river is as important as crossing it. A river can connect every bit as effectively as it divides.
by Christopher Caldwell, New York Times
Tocqueville was an unlikely student of democracy, and an even less likely voyager to the American wilderness.
by Haruki Murakami, New York Times
When I turned 29, all of a sudden out of nowhere I got this feeling that I wanted to write a novel — that I could do it.
by Francis Fukuyama, NPQ
The late Isaiah Berlin famously made the distinction between "negative" and "positive" freedom—the first being "freedom from" tyranny and interference and the second being "freedom to" do what one will in his or her zone of non-interference; the freedom of self-realization.
by Edward Wyatt, New York Times
For weeks people have been coming into the Heritage Book Shop in tears, aaddened by the seemingly sudden decision of Louis and Benjamin Weinstein to close their antiquarian book business after 44 years, selling off their voluminous inventory and leaving this city — if not the country — beeft ofyet another literary landmark.
But no tears are being shed by the Weinstein brothers themselves.
by Linton Weeks, Washington Post
From cupcakes to kickball, adults are clinging to childish things.
by Joyce Wadler, New York Times
Is there anything more terrifying to a property owner than stories of housesitter trust betrayed? And yet, when grown-ups gather round the Weber Summit Gold grill in the prime housesitting months of summer, such stories are seldom shared.
by Kim Severson, New York Times
Why would a man with miles of oceanshoreline to explore spend part of his vacation studying potato chips? His answer was as simple as the magical combination of potato, hot fat and salt. "I love chips," he said.
by Mark Bittman, Internationa Herald Tribune
It seems it's necessary to visit Venice every few years to reaffirm that a couple of things haven't changed. One, the world's favorite city hasn't yet sunk into the sea, and two, the food isn't nearly as bad as most "experts" report.
by Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The United States, for all its faults, is still the most inclusive society on Earth. Our nation has a way of making outsiders into participants, a way of convincing people that they are protagonists, not just pawns. The United States can fall short of its promises, but it has a genius for manufacturing possibility.
by Alan Michael Parker, Slate
by Garrison Keillor, Salon
When you're spinning a story you have to know when to make your exit. One little detail can throw the whole thing off.
by Stephen Prothero, Newsweek
Coming at the problem of religion from the angle of difference rather than similarity is scary. But the world is what it is. And both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.
by Jean Sprackland, New Yorker
by Clive James, New Yorker
by Stuart Dybek, New Yorker
by John Schwartz, New York Times
There aren't many wholesome explosions in the news these day, but those are what Summer Explosives Camp provides.
by Charles Fishman, Fast Company
Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on iPods or movie tickets: $15 billion. A journey into the economics—and psychology—of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.
by Jack Shafer, Slate
If we're lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past.
by Jacob Gershman, New York Sun
In this land of haute cuisine where American tourists are customarily greeted with Gallic scorn, the world's largest fast food company is more popular than ever.
by John Crace, The Guardian
There is no narrative. Just an itinerary. Does thi smean something? Who cares? Not me. I've been given eough cash to get trashed for the next six months just for digging out some scraps of stoned ramblings, so I'm sorted.
I'm so deep.
Even when I'm asleep.
by Kenneth C. Davis, New York Times
Disdain for what is foreign is, sad to say, as American as apple pie, slavery and lynching.
by Lena H. Sun, Washington Post
Metro's new general manager wants to get rid of the carpet in trains, brighten the lighting in stations and increase advertising in stations, trains and buses.
In many places, such mundane changes would be met with a shrug.
But this is the Washington area Metro, which has long prided itself on a dignified ambiance that is supposed to make it better than the average commuter system.
by Adam Nossiter, New York Times
The sound of hammers and saw. New green grass. A few freshly painted facades. Birdsong piping from a young tree.
This is the Gentilly neithborhood today, once a backbone of New Orleans and all but given up for dead less than a year ago after flooding from Hurricane Katrina turned it brown and gray and silent in 2005.
by Steve Hendrix, Washington Post
One defied orders to leave the other behind to die; Decades later, the rescuer saw his patient in traffic: 2 chance encounters sparked a lifelong 2-member fraternity.
by Claire Heald, BBC News
The Tour de France is the summit of achievement for any professional cyclist, but how far can an amateur with a fold-up bike get on the course?
by Sanford Levinson, Boston Globe
There's a lot of talk — and wishful thinking — about removing Dick Cheney from office. But Cheney isn't the real problem. The vice presidency itself, enshrined in the Constitution, is the problem. The country would be better without it.
by Michael Rosenwald, Washington Post
The soft-drink stand that gave birth to a hotel empire is long gone. But the Marriotts still cling to the values it represents, even in a business climate where hip trumps wholesome.
by Benjamin Anastas, New York Times
A growing community of amateur scholars believe that the world as we know it will come to an end in 2012, as prophesied by the ancient Maya. Is the New Age apocalypse coming round at last?
by Denise Caruso, New York Times
The $73.5 billion global biotech buisiness may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific principles on which it was founded.
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