July 30, 2012: Morning
- President Romney will find it hard to cut spending; President Obama will struggle to increase it any further.
- How to hide your money off-shore.
- Life in the town of Wolfeboro, NH, where Romney vacations.
- Growing up black in Jackson, Miss.
- List of the most important American painters to emerge since 2000.
- TMN's Clay Risen launches a new blog, "Mash Notes," about American whiskey.
- I like slow motion. I like lightning. I like slow motion lightning.
- Photos and notes on how the Olympic cauldron was built.
- List of Olympic medalists in art competitions.
- As science advances, we must not succumb to the allure of neuroscientific explanations and let people off the hook.
- Collection of "write-arounds"—profiles whose subjects wouldn’t cooperate with the writer.
- Colson Whitehead on writing.
- Tribute to the "wildly creative and experimental work" of Polish photographer Jerzy Lewczynski.
- Trailer for Ang Lee's Life of Pi.