4 February 2008: Afternoon

Bush unleashes his proposed budget on unsuspecting after-school programs, children's hospitals, baby ducks.

The shared party split: one candidate who reaches across party lines, one who states his or her first principle as representing the traditional base.

Analyzing Hillary and Barack as method actors; analyzing New England's primary empowerment.

Op: The 2008 campaign has already served one foreign-policy purpose: It has changed how America's Western allies see the country.

Graphic: A guide to which candidates our politicians, actors, and politician-actors have endorsed.

Freshly married to a supermodel, and with his ratings in the sink, Sarkozy vows to avoid his personal life for several months.

Print for the commute: Hersh reports lessons from his trips to Syria to find out what Israel bombed.

Lessons from neuroscience applied to copywriting.

The Onion apologizes to man it said was dead, saying it had permission to say so.

A 12-year-old cat. I don't know why. I questioned myself and the situation heavily. Veterinary technincian's blog, "What I killed today."

Today on TMN: Kent Rogowski's reconstructed puzzles; the Guilfoile-Warner Papers prep for Super Tuesday; Robert Birnbaum gives us the week in books.

You were wondering, and no, Arcade Fire didn't license Fox to use "No Cars Go" for the Super Bowl.

Postmodern dance is so capable of giving you 10,000 ideas and no traffic signs. And how do you limit it, how do you choose? Trisha Brown on contemporary dance.