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1. Feature

   What He Knew

   November 29, 2011 06:00 AM

   Anthony Shadid is the most honored foreign correspondent of his generation: two Pulitzer Prizes, a George Polk Award, an Overseas Press Club award, book awards—the list is long. He grew up wanting to be a foreign correspondent.... Continue reading

2. Reports

   Mark Cuban’s Business Model

   February 23, 2011 04:29 PM

   Mark Cuban is well known as the brash, combative owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team, the guy who looks like a big kid and sometimes acts like one. His outbursts can obscure his most notable attribute—he is... Continue reading

3. Cover Story

   Dumb Like a Fox

   March 9, 2010 07:00 AM

   Last December 10 was a big news day. U.S. Senate negotiators announced they had agreed to a compromise on health care reform, final preparations were being made for a global conference on climate change, President Obama accepted the Nobel... Continue reading

4. Feature

   A Thousand Cuts

   January 21, 2010 08:00 AM

   Spencer Ackerman, who reports on national security issues for The Washington Independent and blogs about the same—and does both at a consistently high level of quality, which is not a simple task—last year posted an item on... Continue reading

5. The Observatory

   Criticism of Gladwell Reaches Tipping Point

   November 17, 2009 12:03 PM

   Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The critiques have come from a variety of angles – literary critics lambast his glibness; The Daily Beast doesn’t... Continue reading

6. The Observatory

   Reservations about Resveratrol

   November 5, 2009 04:03 PM

   There is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting or quieting a particular gene cures this condition or that. One prominent example in recent years has been the claim... Continue reading