American Life
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A Weedy Issue
Is prosecuting Americans for possession of marijuana a productive use of resources? (American Prospect)
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Young (Former) Professionals
Job losses and the recession have hit young workers the hardest. (The Nation)
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Move over Latin, here comes… Cyrillic?
Latin alphabet loses monopoly on internet domain names. (Wired)
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19th century knock-off... or priceless antique?
A 200 year-old copy of a portrait of George Washington was painted by a Chinese artist before copyright laws covered art. (ARTnews)
Global Challenges
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Slum Life
A photo essay exploring slums around the world, from Nairobi to Jakarta. (Foreign Policy)
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Invisible Hand, Visible Changes
Examining the argument that free markets will counter religious extremism. (Foreign Affairs)
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Cleanliness is next to… impossible?
How to clean some of the world’s most polluted places. (Scientific American)
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Oil exec: $140 oil was a warning
Oil consumption has outpaced new discoveries for two decades, and global oil production is declining at 5 percent annually. (Energy Bulletin)
International Relations
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Abracadabra?
Some aspects of the Cold War relationship between the United States and the former Soviet Union were almost magical. (The Boston Globe)
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New kid on the street
J Street, a new progressive Jewish-American lobbying group, sees itself as an alternative to AIPAC. Its first national conference garnered notable attendance. (Christian Science Monitor)
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Lives at Risk and Lessons Learned
What the story of a New York Times reporter kidnapped in Afghanistan illuminates about the Taliban in Pakistan. (National Review)
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The Other Battle in Afghanistan
Women’s rights have worsened in Afghanistan and there will be no stability until the status of women is addressed and improved. (The Nation)
Economy
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Time for the Financial Hazmat
The problem with explaining toxic assets and how they can be cleaned up. (Hoover Digest)
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Survival of the fattest?
Feeding federal money to parts of the financial sector may result in fewer banks with more power, while weaker areas of the U.S. economy languish. (In These Times)
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Green jobs hotbeds
The 15 best metro areas in the country for “clean tech” employment. (CNN Money)
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Did the Wall Street big boys conspire to bring down Bear?
A secret meeting took place at the New York Fed in March 2008, the day before investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. (Rolling Stone)
Climate Change
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It’s not a natural variation
Changes in Arctic sediments show that warming has occurred too quickly to be attributed to natural causes. (Science Daily)
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It may just be too dirty to clean up
Carbon-capture technology won’t do enough to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in Canada’s tar sands operation. (New Scientist)
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Are you willing to give up blue skies?
Geoengineering is getting a closer look in case emissions don’t drop. (MSNBC)
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Time for Fido to Go Green?
How common household pets contribute to climate change and global warming. (New Scientist)
