"As the TSA feels you up and dresses you down, terrorists are tearing a hole in a new target: The U.S. economy."

This isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy makers should be doing everything they can to change that fact.

"A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn’t trickle down to Main Street, financial reform that doesn’t fundamentally restructure Wall Street, and health-care reforms that don’t promise to bring down health-care costs have all created an enthusiasm gap. They’ve fired up the right, demoralized the left, and generated unease among the general population."

We won't spend the money necessary to prevent this from happening again.

An International Monetary Fund veteran explains how the US financial situation is like that of a less-powerful nation's developing economy. Oligarchy, corruption, and the financial sector's control of the government — it's not good.

Is it?

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.

I want to revisit this later; it is an interesting retort to Michael Pollan and others' condemnations of current farming techniques.

"Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business. Few people know how hard Google is trying to bring it back to life, or why the company now considers journalism’s survival crucial to its own prospects."

Plain and simple: software patents don't work because there's too much software and not enough people who know about it.

How mobile phone usage differs geographically, and how the difference is lessening.

"I had this vision of the future — a ruined empire, run by number crunchers, squalid and stupid and puffed up with phony patriotism, settling for a long slow decline."

"The most immediate revelation, of course, is that at some point next year revenues from gigs payable to artists will for the first time overtake revenues accrued by labels from sales of recorded music."

I want to read this collection of articles someday, but I doubt I will.

A great collection of neutral articles about the facts and possible effects of candidates' proposed tax plans.