2 September 2008: Morning

Power is handed back to the Iraqi army in Anbar province, once the cradle of the insurgency.

U.S. watches closely as Russia works to rebuild ties with Cuba--perhaps their answer to the missile shield.

"We are living in the last days. These are incredible times to live in." Meet Palin's pastors.

Op: John McCain has been--what's the word?--lying. And so have all the pundits who rushed to defend McCain's choice.

"I think the media is starting to get a little sick of us." On the heels of the D.N.C., Republicans' media-op force slings mud in real time.

Today's long read: Bush gropes for a legacy, appears to be heading toward "unrewarded heroism," but only time--and maybe McCain--will tell.

Op: Africa should not use aid to survive, but to reform business practice, trade their way out of poverty.

Ancestral Amazonian cities and dense urban clusters indicate colonization emptied, not populated, these regions.

Truman Show and Matrix-related delusion may be classic examples of mental illness--but the internet certainly isn't helping.

Google launches a browser, hopes to win away users from Microsoft's pending Google-ad-free browser.

Then: early-'80s San Diego punks; now: Regrouping to blog about their past, current lives as martial arts teachers, diplomats, professors.

Some scientists are doing more than talk about the implication of Atom Collider CERN--they are rapping about it.

Pedophile nervous for first day of school.