Five Best Thursday Columns
On the end of NATO, the Army's liberal ethos, and the cost of urban farming
A new investigation questions Atlanta's recently stellar test scores
On the end of NATO, the Army's liberal ethos, and the cost of urban farming
It would take nine coal-burning power plants to produce the amount of energy DVR boxes waste
WTForever21 blogger Rachel Kane refuses to give in to the store's demands
Cartoonist Tom Toles on rejecting climate change evidence
On Obama's visit to Puerto Rico and the real gay girls in Damascus
The writer of Playbook finally gives Betsy Rothstein what she wants
Cartoonist Tony Auth on whether the GOP's key campaign points are yet to come
On the women of sex scandals, Bachmann's triumph, and life in Libya
Russell Crowe's questionable tweets on circumcision launch a multi-pronged Twitter spat
Cartoonist Tony Auth on the presidential hopeful's Grecian cruise
On Russia's political future, Internet-fueled narcissism, and the true cost of Medicare
The Rolling Stone writer suggests Sorkin's reporting on Goldman is a conflict of interest
That's out of the 28 comedy acts performing at the festival this year
MySpace now has only one interested buyer
Cartoonist Lisa Benson comments on America's ability to help Greece out of rising water
On jobless youth, successful dictatorships, and blowing up the world
It's roughly the same in the U.S. and worldwide, if the survey is to be believed
They say the contractor hired to support the tree did a shoddy job
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the sad truth about our government and media
On the immigration problem, Chinese strategy, and the Vatican messing with AIDS
The White Sox manager is fed up with Penn's support of Hugo Chavez
Cartoonist Lisa Benson on the economy and the Obama administration
On sleazy politicians, Peru's new president, and exiting Afghanistan safely
Cadbury finally pulls an advertisement accused by Campbell and black activists as being racist
On life after Weinergate, China's economic supremacy, and a defense of Goldman Sachs
The Daily Show gained viewers as Fox lost them
On Jack Kevorkian, antibiotic abuse, and American jobs versus Chinese copyright
New agricultural technology aims to end more than a decade-long trend of farmer suicides
On Obama and Israel, the IMF's faults, and the economic costs of obesity
Love accuses site of "slut shaming," Jezebel begs to differ
Cartoonist Ben Sargent on legislators' favorite tools
On the shrinking Nile, political sex scandals, and interrogation deniers
Baggage, food and other fees now account for nearly a third of the airline industry
Mayor Jack Scott is banning tornado victims from accepting FEMA trailers
On regulating the global media, Chicago's approach to global warming, and immigration
The recession didn't solve our carbon problems after all
The Special Registration program, started after 9/11, was officially shut down last month
Not even the Klan approves of the Westboro Baptist Church's funeral protests
On recent graduates, Sudan's civil strife, and the European Union's struggles
Members of Rolling Thunder can't agree on whether she was invited to their D.C. event
The mindless, daily activity is also correlated with obesity, stress, divorce and neck pain
On the Afghanistan end game, the word of the decade, and a very unspecial relationship
Six more months and he sets the presidential record, computes Brendan Nyhan
New York artist John Perry insists The New Yorker misrepresented him
The Facebook founder has a new dietary restriction
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