Five Best Wednesday Columns
Flash mobs, lost decades, and Rick Perry
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Flash mobs, lost decades, and Rick Perry
Home Ec, job quality, 9/11, and the glorious works of the Hubble
American decline, religious inoculation, and the end of intervention
The folly of 'looking presidential', Rick Perry's health care problem, and limiting web anonymity
Federal cloud computing, feral pig hunting, and Rick Perry's theocracy
Misquoting, weak European militaries, and Congolese family planning
Christian conservatives, the Ladies in White, and saving bookstores
Fact checking the MLK Jr. memorial, and the anniversary of women's suffrage
Bill Keller on candidates' religion, Karl Rove on Boehner, and Frank Bruni on culinary elitism
Tripoli's martyrs, Obama's foreign policy, and GOP tax follies
Qaddafi's Son, French women and DSK, and Scott Brown's record
Brian Whitaker on Libya's new challenges, Ross Douthat on Texas's success
Rick Perry's 'Id', America's arctic disadvantage, and budgeting like a Montana rancher
China's 'cat and mouse' media freedom game, Fareed Zakaria's unemployment prescriptions
The supercommittee, the problem with liberal arts these days, and more
'The Help,' reforming Libya's education, and examining economic extremism
A Christie candidacy, college cost-benefit, and irritating office workers
On the page program, the 'T' in LGBT, and spending on America's youth
On medicare reform, chimpanzee testing, and U.K. vigilantes
Tea Party flip-flopping, rating agencies' extortion, and more
Russian corruption, Hitler's Olympics, and Chris Christie's rage
Arab dictators in the spotlight, U.S. embargoes in the Congo, and respect for the elderly
Tax reform, animal abuse, and dot-gov online ads
Nancy Pelosi on jobs, Stephen Carter on balanced budgets, and Larry Harris on credit cards
Chinese media, Arab societies, and American debt
Hotel workplace safety, myths of slave marriage, and the historic upheavals of August
Republican intransigence, Democratic disarray, and powerful Syrian minorities
On famine, military spending, and Elizabeth Warren
On summer school, Lincoln, and vengenace
On facial recognition, the big economic picture, Norway's children, and more
On China, Breivik, the debt ceiling, and more
Aging democracies, Murdoch as Macbeth, and Google+ as alternative reality
Somalian famine, Amazon tax dodges, and the decline of the West
'Caylee' laws, the future of News Corp., and Marcus Bachmann-hater hypocrisy
Iran may have weapons, tabloids may be vital, and Reagan may have supported Democrats
Obama's pace in Libya, debate over Keynes, and an island nation in trouble
On vaccines, debts, and prison problems
Harry Potter and the debt ceiling of doom
On debt, divorce, and Bastille Day
A depressing economic forecast, an argument for pot research, and more
The grace of Betty Ford, the good side of Rupert Murdoch, and more
On seawater power, media flaws, and universal questions
On the debt ceiling, Britain's child soldiers, and 'the road to serfdom'
On Britain's homegrown terrorists, Casey Anthony's verdict, and Chinese democracy
On Whitey Bulger, electricity in Afghanistan, and honesty with DSK
On drug labels, Tibet, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
On Colbert's PAC, the dwindling female population, and NewsCorp's British monopoly
On Michele Bachmann, c igarettes, and corporate hacking protection
On Obama and gay marriage, bringing Assad to the Hague and Chavez's health
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