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.
* Schröder: Austerity is strangling Europe; a real political union is now required. * In America in 1968, like Europe today, austerity was the goal; it is not so in America now. * Law schools hire graduates to help them find jobs, and possibly to boost schools' grad-employment rates. * Story of
* U.S. charges Yonas Fikre, an American who claims he was tortured, with conspiracy. * Video shows assailants who killed Cairo protesters were armed; Army denies the thugs were their own. * Romney's experiment with an openly gay campaign aide short-lived. * Love, Barry: Obama's romantic youth. * Charlie
* Personal genetics companies "don’t have any straightforward truths to offer users." * Details of a journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Street. * Remarkable art made from forsaken dollar bills. * Profile of Romney's wealthy Bain colleague, now author of what may become "the most hated
* New issues released from al Qaeda magazine, with a quiz and humor features along with killing advice. * Dubai is recovering thanks to the Arab Spring and The New Silk Road. * Americans call Pizza Hut's pizza-cheeseburger hybrid an abomination—but the target market is the Middle East. * Will
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* Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi sworn in as Burmese parliamentarian. * Fifteen percent of the world's population convinced the end is near—and within their lifetime. * Pictures compared of New York's Union Square on May firsts, 1912 and 2012. * The state of our politics is at
People complain that politics are worse than ever. It happens to be true. But history contains as many examples of the contentious, weird, and wacky as the present—and those absurdities are actually vital to our democracy.
* Nasher museum in Dallas, designed by Piano, besieged by the glare from a neighboring condo tower. * Related: Sarah Hepola on why so few people admit loving Dallas. * Round-up of cityscapes painted on cardboard. * Toni Morrison's real name is Chloe Wofford—Toni does the publicity, she says, but
* Open letter to NFL recruits encourages them to keep family near, and to stay far away from interior decorators. * If Obama isn't careful, his opponent could conceivably turn his in-jokes and dazzling hipness against him. * Brigid Sweeney on the fall of Sears, once America's mightiest
