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Senate won't vote on health care bill before August recess.
The Washington Post leads with an overview of the continuing health care battles in Congress as lawmakers appear ready to ignore President Obama's Aug. 7 deadline. Senate Majority Leader Harry… Read more »
Why Obama's trip to the Cleveland Clinic is misleading.
Making doctors salaried employees is a great goal. Health care reform won't achieve it.[more ...]... Read more »
Why does the carbonation taste different in bottles and cans of soda?
As the summer heat drags on, one Explainer reader wonders why soda or beer from a can tastes so much fizzier than the stuff that comes out of a bottle… Read more »
In the Loop reviewed.
Political satire is a tough genre to pull off. The insight that the people who run governments are as selfish and clueless as the rest of us, and that what… Read more »
The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
As many of us learned early this week, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the eminent Harvard scholar of African-American culture, was arrested a week ago outside his own home in Cambridge… Read more »
What In the Loop director Armando Iannucci taught Sacha Baron Cohen. And Ricky Gervais. And Stephen Colbert.
Television comedies-turned-movies have a spotty track record: For every South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, there are a few Bewitcheds and Flintstoneses. It's certainly not a genre associated with rapturous… Read more »
What readers have sacrificed because of the recession.
What is deprivation? Is it best measured objectively? That's the idea behind the "poverty line"—although that yardstick, which dates from 1939 and is based on the cost of a minimal… Read more »
Debating The Snakehead, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
How the FBI brought down Sister Ping.[more ...]... Read more »
The only zoos in the world where the animals are smuggled through tunnels.
GAZA—Something didn't quite look right about the zebra, but it was hard to say exactly what. Of the several ramshackle zoos in Gaza, Marah, located not far from the Bureij… Read more »
Insurance subsidies might not be enough; Pelosi is optimistic but doesn't commit to timetable.
The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox all lead with health care as Democratic leaders push to make progress on legislation before lawmakers leave… Read more »
