Ecuador will drill for oil in pristine Amazon rainforest unless the world pays it $3 billion. Trib investigation finds Illinois nursing homes keep the peace by overdosing residents on psychotropics. Chris Ware's terrific Halloween-themed gatefold comic in this week's New Yorker. The deadline is tonight
Maine is gay marriage's new battleground; if the law's upheld, the movement gains its first ballot-box victory. Instpaper for the commute: Invoking Stalin in today's debates is frivolous, and it disrespects his victims. Friedman: We can't afford 20 years of rebuilding
Ex-A.I.G. chief builds a competitor that may impact A.I.G.'s means to repay taxpayers. Interview with a man who trains rats to detect landmines. Dementia experts dismiss N.F.L.'s future analysis of players' cognitive decline. Numerical evidence proves Derek Jeter
Bush is back, this time as a softshoe motivational speaker. Op: Torturing dogs or humans engenders compliance, not truth-telling. Comedian jokes about amputee soldiers; pols and editors outraged on soldiers' behalf; soldiers laugh, distrust pompous pols and editors. Political activists fulminate because it provides "so many of
Times reporter David Rohde's Afghanistan kidnapping account could serve as a guide for how best to deal with the Taliban. How the Red Cross delivers letters to hostages. By effectively cornering the market on anti-Administration animus, Fox News has had a robust 2009 so far. Some researchers
Obama weighs outcome of Afghanistan war game; watchers wait for McChrystal to fly to D.C. Op: Obama's surveillance tools are the same as Bush's: served with glib assurances. At-home cosmetic lasers gaining popularity, and plastic surgeons everywhere are worried. Interior decorating with Augusten Burroughs.
The state of Iran: Giant jail full of widespread revulsion and corrosive internal conflict. Long before he became president, there were signs in Obama of a tendency to promise things easily and compromise often. Cliffhanger director, Garcia, and Kilmer build film around last year's Russia-Georgia war. FOX
While some experts predict this week as the peak of the H1N1 pandemic, some experts say you can't predict these things. M.T.A. considers reduced off-peak fares, as it anticipates a 2011 (or sooner) fare hike. "I feel that I am doing something in a
Brief guide to the pieces involved in the puzzle of Iran's nukes. White discontent is a puzzle, because white Britons are much better off than others. Op: Buchanan's tribal fears are hateful hackery; America is much blacker than he admits. Examples of racist emails sent by
C.D.C. says swine flu hospitalization rates are highest among those 24 and younger. A writer tells how her son, who has leukemia, can't go to day care because of unvaccinated children. Vaccination rates have dropped so low that occurrences of some children's diseases are
