26 June 2007: Morning

  • Supreme Court significantly weakens McCain-Feingold's restrictions on special-interest-funded ads.
  • What America knows, a Newsweek poll suggesting that John Roberts could be hotter.
  • This week's must reads: The Post's "Angler" series about Cheney's term.
  • George Packer's four theories on why high officials always seem to know less than anyone else.
  • Held prisoner in a Chinese toy factory, a reporter sees dysfunction in the marriage of government and industry.
  • Op: Rationale for random trials in the global-aid business.
  • Blair lands new job as Middle East peace envoy, in charge of preparing Palestinians for negotiations with Israel.
  • This generation will become a very violent generation, much worse than during Saddam Hussein's regime.
  • Review of current Russian news items.
  • Data shows nurturing playing a significant role in perception of racially different faces.
  • Names of the born and the dead in France.
  • Music dies today: Webcasters go silent to protest upcoming higher royalty rates.
  • Today's long read: Really, the record industry is dead: the story of the decline.
  • Summer escapes when you don't feel like leaving Brooklyn.
  • Seasonal warnings on why not to pour white wine too cold; One must also consider the oyster.
  • How to (somewhat) painlessly purge your books.
  • Do we choose to live in a world that honors writers or in a world that kills them?
  • All things related to the honorable history of the great American grocery store.
  • TMN wants to give (one of) you a new iPod--don't you want a new iPod?