3 December 2008: Morning

India fingers Pakistani militant group for Mumbai attacks--a joint response is crucial for Pakistan's "shaky" civilian government.

Movie-plot threats...might be what people worry about, but a bunch of trained...men with guns and grenades is all they needed. Security lessons learned from Mumbai.

Research shows soldiers who have taken a life are more likely to defend the Iraq war.

This election season may have done to the word "Republican" what 1972 did for the word "liberal." How McCain-Palin destroyed the G.O.P. as we knew it.

Nader: Current plans for climate change action will lead to trade anarchy--global carbon tax is the best plan.

How to pay, negotiate, and text message Somalia's pirates.

How New York City enforces traffic laws: frequently, and with heavier fines, to the tune of 64% more this year than in 2002.

New, unfinished David Foster Wallace fiction to see light in a student journal.

Roget, Mr. Thesaurus--grand tour adviser, laughing-gas tester--sought to bottle imagination.

The nine-year-old's dating advice: Make them laugh, pretty girls are like cars, etc.

A map of where babies come from--how the adoption industry manufactures supply to meet demand.

The next victim of the credit crisis: the office holiday party.

Emergency calls reveal high drama, snap psychology (includes audio).