From Rolling Stone, Obama's Sheriff: Under Bush, the Interior Department was as lawless as the Wild West, but can the new secretary bring the wrongdoers to justice? Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department. Is anything black about the American West? The black American experience is more than just Harlem and Mississippi, North and South, ghettoes and Jim Crow. Daniel Cloud on scientific capitalism. A small but growing cadre of scientists are arguing that our current crisis was in fact predictable and that the technology exists to make sure that it won’t happen again. More and more and more on The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Charles Darwin wrote about how species began; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now points to how it all might end. Why do most of us cling to the notion of human progress? Because it makes it easier to accept the reality of our own deaths. A.J. Liebling saw this coming: In The Press, published in 1964, the media critic predicted that newspapers' business models would be their undoing. On Reading Liebling: A consideration of The New Yorker scribe's diverse canon.
