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Crisis commission to quiz bankers

Jim Kuhnhenn
Hearings on what happened will feature heads of Goldman, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America

Reactions to healthcare bill pour in

Alex Koppelman
Senate passes healthcare reform -- and both sides try to score points

My Christmas vision

Garrison Keillor
In a 10th Avenue deli, an elegant girl from the prairie manages a herd of damaged boys with grace and good humor

Directors of the Decade No. 9: The sensualists

Matt Zoller Seitz
What do Lynch, Malick, Mann, Wong and Hou have in common?

Logic made fun

Laura Miller
A new comic romps through one of philosophy's greatest debates

Report: Senate Dems reach deal to drop public option

Alex Koppelman
Details of the agreement are sketchy, but it seems that the plan for a government-run insurer is dead in the Senate

State dinner crashers met Obama

Larry Margasak
A seriously shamed Secret Service apologizes

The extreme secrecy of the federal courts

Glenn Greenwald
Judges are not only permitted, but required, to conceal anything the government declares to be secret.

Medical drama smackdown: “Mercy” vs. McDreamy!

Heather Havrilesky
Which do we crave more, NBC's gritty hospital melodrama or the fantastical emotional Mad Libs of "Grey's Anatomy"?

How Israel destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar nuclear reactor

Erich Follath, Holger Stark
In a hushed-up mission in September 2007, Israeli jets blew up a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert

Hotels aided sportscaster’s accused stalker

Tracy Clark-Flory
A perv allegedly violated ESPN's Erin Andrews with a little help from the front desk. Also: There are other victims

A healthcare reform foe’s alleged history of discrimination

Tristram Korten
Plaintiffs claim conservative activist Rick Scott had strange criteria about who could work in his clinics

Glenn Beck becomes damaged goods

Alexander Zaitchik
The radio phenom takes over the morning zoo, makes fun of miscarriages and flames out. Part 2 of 3

The right dreams of taking back the country

Mike Madden
At the Values Voter Summit, Carrie Prejean and Michele Bachmann rally the faithful

Moonshine returns!

Catherine Price
The fabled liquor of outlaws and gangsters is making a comeback with craft distillers. Too bad it's still illegal

Emotional Biden remembers Kennedy

Vincent Rossmeier
The vice president gets choked up while giving a sad, sweet speech about his colleague and friend

The many sides of Ted Kennedy

Dana Cook
Memories from those who loved and loathed the man

“We’re going to kill your children”

Mark Benjamin
Mock executions and a favored Saddam technique, all endorsed by Cheney. Highlights of the CIA interrogation report

Our new secret weapon sucks

Mark Leyner
The Army isn't just investing in small robots -- it's drafting our trustiest domestic appliances

I actually was 16 and pregnant

Amy Benfer
And while TV often bungles what it's like to be a teen mother, MTV's reality series got it (mostly, movingly) right

My dying grandpa’s not at peace

Cary Tennis
I fear there's nothing worse than struggling against the inevitable

Tehran dispatch: A different kind of Friday Prayers

Shane M.
The opposition searches for a leader, and the "Death to America" chants don't work anymore. Also: Steve Buscemi

The events preceding Goldman Sachs’ new “blowout profits”

Glenn Greenwald
In May, a former top IMF official noted: "the finance industry has effectively captured our government."

The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux

Glenn Greenwald
Arguably, prosecuting low-level torturers while shielding powerful policy makers would be worse than doing nothing.
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