From Vice, an article on the forgotten starts of 1970s terrorism. The Palin Network: A who’s who and what’s what of the inner circle of the leading Republican shadow candidate. A review of Parting Shots: The Undiplomatic Final Words of Our Departing Ambassadors. How the cell phone is changing the world: The impact of the ubiquitous device extends from politics to business, medicine, and war. As NPR celebrates its 40th anniversary with a new oral history, VF.com puts faces to the public-radio network’s biggest names. The Lies of Islamophobia: John Feffer on the three unfinished wars of the West against the Rest. You always hear about how New York’s Times Square was more fun way back when, when hookers and porno ruled, before America’s terror mayor Rudy G. “took back the streets” by banishing the Squeegee Men and welcoming Disney into the fold, and maybe it was — but more aptly, it was a different era. Online comments maybe not a total waste of time: Conversations on news sites show how information and ideas spread. A review of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Matt Taibbi on how the courts are helping banks screw over homeowners. Is this a "golden age" for air travel? Travelers of the 21st century, count your blessings. Pretty good for government work: Warren E. Buffett says thanks are in order for an economic meltdown averted. In Treatment: In Argentina, psychoanalysis is as common as Malbec. Whit Stillman is Running Late: First Things tracks down the revered director as he makes his first new movie in twelve years — if he hurries. In a newly published exchange of letters, Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy prod, parry, and spar. A review of The Fear of Barbarians by Tzvetan Todorov.
