- How to Get Good Health Care Reform Without the Public Option, by Jonathan Cohn
- The Plot Thins: The Most Important Questions About the Recently Uncovered Al Qaeda Cell, Answered, by James Meek
- A Tribute to My Friend, William Safire, by Howell Raines
- Todd Gitlin Remembers Safire, the Pungent Pundit of Pugnacity, by Todd Gitlin
- To Save the Environment, Do We Have to Live Like Europeans? by Bradford Pulmer
- Why Selling Insurance Across State Lines Would Screw Just About Everybody, by Michael Berger
- A Map of Cities Where American Jobs May Have Disappeared for Good, by Alan Berube
- Peretz: There Are Two Ways to Delay the Production of an Iranian Bomb. One Way Works, by Marty Peretz
As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, metro policy debate on The Avenue, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Simon Johnson, Ed Kilgore, Damon Linker, and John McWhorter.