Headlines from February 23, 2009

Treasury advisors preparing "the largest bankruptcy loan ever" in case GM and Chrysler declare need.
Sachs must-read: There is little reason to fear a decade of stagnation, much less a depression.
If you are OK with the FDIC, you are OK with nationalization.
Many elderly are joining the unemployed ranks, unable to be out of work.
Latvia goes the way of Iceland and collapses.
Instapaper for the commute: The Axis of Upheaval.
Traveling around Ukraine to test if Russia has its sights on conquering.
Profile of Jon and Ruth Jordan, CrimeSpree magazine's editors and the crime-fiction world's wheelers and dealers.
Long profile on how Rahm Emanuel pulls strings as the "Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself."
Notes from a "Gitmo Party," thrown for lawyers to celebrate Guantanamo's closure.
Insurance company denies musicians due to high risk, despite having Iggy Pop as spokesperson.
Profile of the teenager who traffic-controls Brooklyn's towncars.
Art Fag City wins Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant.
Harper Perennial blog spotlights a great short story every week for a year.
Trilogy meter of how various movies-in-threes rank.
"My Ideas for Staged Photos Set Me Apart From Other Wedding Photographers."
"We missed the biggest Middle East peace opportunity of the decade, just so we could keep saying 'axis of evil.'" Let's talk to Iran.
Obama will not continue Bush's missionary rhetoric to spread democracy--diplomacy will be quieter, rebranded.
Slums are innovative and hopeful; improving them allows urban migrants a level of security--and a future.
There is a way to wipe out AIDS, and it's going to cost $85 billion and some civil liberties.
Geography professors use satellite imagery to identify three buildings that may house Osama bin Laden.
Video-game-like software aids disaster planning: How to save New York from rising sea levels.
Photos: Visual type around NYC; New York transit typos.
I fear Muzak's passing will only drag us deeper into the cultural abyss. In praise of Muzak.
In Iceland, women lead the recovery, celebrate Husband's Day, fear the "Glass Cliff."
"Her kidneys are ruined...she's got calcification in her skin; her vessels leak." Inside the N.I.H.'s undiagnosed diseases program.
An interview with Jon Fasman, who's been named a finalist in the Young Lions Fiction Award.
From 2003, Fasman's "What They Weren't Worth," for TMN.
Video: Are you the favorite person of anybody?