--Jonathan Cohn on where health care stands as of now
--Richard Thaler on the all-gain, no-pain plan to auction off the radio spectrum
--Tim Noah on America's insufficiently frightened ruling class
--Ron Brownstein on America's excessively frightened Democrats
--Dexter Filkins surveys America's position in Afghanistan
--Ross Douthat dreams of Mitch Daniels (My not-altogether different take here.)