Kanishk Tharoor: Walls Against Heaven (Popula)
Such walls are built because they can be, because a ruler can make the implausible real.
Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq (The Billfold)
An anonymous writer explains his adventurous life with dangerous NGO work.
Washblog: Four Basic Kinds of Health Care Financing Around the World
The four most common types of healthcare that really work and don't really work and how ours is a jumble of parts of all four and all the proposals are pretty shitty.