* How the week ends: Michele Bachmann is no longer Swiss. * Photos of the lost town of Kaixian before it was flooded by the Three Gorges Dam project. * Round-up of energy-related conflicts around the world. * Speech transcripts show Obama using the word "extraordinary" an extraordinary amount. * Hedge-
* Ode to the secretary-spy who went to Saigon, and was the first American woman killed there. * Not-comic comic: Memories of being raised by an abusive mother. * Design-based solutions for water management in India. * Green-energy excitement of the day: Power from onion waste. * Philippe Starck designs gadget
* Rush-hour car-bomb attacks kill 40 in Damascus, part of an "alarming upsurge." * Explosions are passé in Hollywood—we have entered the era of the implosion. * Obama endorses same-sex marriage, a position he backed in 1996. * I think of all the gay kids out there who
* Dilemma for the Outer Banks: Preserving wild horses could threaten birds and nesting turtles. * State of the vaccine effort. * Journalism is being replaced. * Blogger uses the Journal to speak out after the Chronicle of Higher Education fires her for mocking Black Studies. * Brief, accessible piece on the state of nihilism—
* Greece's exit from the euro zone now looking increasingly likely. * Bomber given the advanced underwear device found to be a CIA and Saudi intelligence informant. * Economics lessons on how to negotiate with pirates. * Notes on why the "broccoli argument" is a rhetorical tour de force that
* America is "obscenely comfortable in conflating black with crime." * Responding to "Why Black Women Are Fat." * France's center-right party stares glumly at new paths in a post-Sarkozy future. * Part one of "Our French Connection"—figuring out what Americans think of
* Poll says North Carolina very likely to amend its constitution today to ban same-sex marriage. * Upgraded "underwear bomb" plot foiled before an AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) bomber could reach an airport. * Ethiopia cracks down on international adoptions as reports of fraud surface. * Nuclear-free
* Trove of Lehman emails demonstrates Wall Street's arrogance. * In Brazil, a growing economy demands more energy, but environmental concerns fuel protests against hydroelectric projects. * American pegs hardcore frequent fliers, including those with lifetime passes, for millions in losses. * Communism = integral to capitalism. * WaPo investigation into DC's
* World markets tumble in reaction to this weekend's elections in Europe. * Greek and French voters rejected austerity, throwing Greece into political uncertainty. * Sarkozy was always more our man than theirs, but he changed how the French see the presidency. * Slate on Paris, I Love You but You'
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, the opinion column’s wrath bled well beyond its confines with the headlines full of people calling others out, correcting them, and setting them straight.
