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Since Wednesday, at least 100 have been killed in Syria by Assad regime
German Chancellor Angela Merkel casts doubt on whether Greece can be saved
Iran warns EU over oil embargo
Congresswoman Giffords to step down as her district grows restless
How Washington changed Obama
Gingrich opens up lead in Florida
Taliban-recruited Afghan soldier kills four French troops
Did Santorum beat Romney in Iowa?
SOPA, PIPA lead to web blackout protest
Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, steps down from board
Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s long game
Captain of stricken cruise ship fled the scene
Another Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated
New Hampshire blog (from the lefty Nation): Romney, then Paul
As US pulls back armed forces, Europe faces dismal miltary reality
IDF chief says Israel ready to absorb Syrian Alawite refugees once Assad regime falls
Iran sentences so-called CIA agent to death
Out in the Cold: Federal government cuts home heating assistance as winter begins
Syrian media awaken despite crackdown
Iraq suicide bombing kills 30
Romney (barely) wins Iowa; Bachmann quits; New Hampshire next
Gingrich predicts defeat in Iowa
With Arab League monitors in Syria, protests grow
Obama signs bill providing more military aid to Israel
Syrian regime blames Al Qaeda for bomb blasts; protesters say ruling regime was responsible
Charles Baxter on Don DelLillo’s new story collection
Patti Smith, the Mother Courage of Rock
London Review of Books: A new history of Scientology
Etta James dead at 73
Salman Rushdie cancels India visit after death threat
Drugs, murder, and books in (London’s) Soho
Why read anymore?
NYT: The advantages of working alone
Expect uproar from the reissue of the Jefferson Bible
Lapham’s Quarterly: Poor Hartley Coleridge
Why do Americans love Downton Abbey?
Cattelan at the Guggenheim
The always entertaining William James
NYT: Why authors tweet
The many lives of Sherlock Holmes
Egypt: The military and the mayhen
A.N. Wilson on Wodehouse
An undocumented American looks at the election
N+1 on the crisis at the New School
Vachel Lindsay, father of the Beats
Do the classics have a future?
Anthony Lane on Otto Preminger’s Laura
The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Eve Babitz’s Hollywood
Richard Russo, Farhad Manjoo, and Amazon
Censored tweets?
HBR: To-do lists don’t work
It’s now up to China to save capitalism
Apple has more cash than the GDP of Singapore. What should it do with it?
5% of patients account for half our healthcare spending
Another instant classic? Federer and Nadal to meet in Australian Open semis
Gingrich will skip debate if audiences aren’t allowed to applaud
The United States’s great shame: its sprawling, growing prison system
Weighing the Joe Paterno legacy
Mitt Romney feels your pain, Floridians
Will the US ever have a viable third party?
The iPhone and what’s wrong with the American job market
Joe Paterno dies
In an age of hyperconnectivity, the joys of going it alone
Katha Pollitt on Ron Paul
G-spot definitely does not exist, scientists say
St. Louis Rams become first NFL team to commit to hosting regular season games in Europe
Bill McKibben on Keystone XL
Paula Deen now selling diabetes medication
The key to understanding South Carolina GOP politics? Barbecue, of course
Do sports build character?
The depressing pseudoscience of Blue Monday
The myth of American productivity
Half-brother of North Korea’s new leader predicts regime collapse with or without reforms
The greatest running shoe never sold
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