AMERICAN POLITICS

All you really need to know about why the change matters (Brothers Judd)

McCain, Obama plan joint stop at Ground Zero (AP)

Proud of the GOP (Bill Whittle, NRO)

Work-Life Balance (Interview with Nancy Pelosi, Ladies' Home Journal)

You'll never believe me, but this isn't a parody either (Brothers Judd)

And then the Unicorn Rider brought me a sandbox (Brothers Judd)

6 Ways McCain Can Run as the Candidate of the Party of an Unpopular President (Michael Barone, USNews.com)

Why They Hate Her (Jonathan Last, First Things)

"A servant's heart" (Peggy Noonan, WSJ)

How Palin beat Alaska's establishment (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)


SOCIETY

How Much is Enough? Comcast finds a new way to kill peer-to-peer (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)

Google launches Microsoft’s big fear (John Gapper, FT)

What Did You Say? (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)

Why Doesn't Plagiarism Matter? (Jonathan Beecher Field, Inside Higher Ed)

Talking Sports the Way Men Really Talk Sports (Bryan Curtis, NY Times)


ARTS AND LETTERS

Review of Running Alone by James MacGregor Burns (Jon Meacham, Washington Post)

Review of The Theocons by Damon Linker (Joshua Muravchik, Commentary)

Review of Palestine by Jimmy Carter (Alan Dershowitz, NY Sun)

Review of The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (George Will, NY Times)

Review of God's Universe by Owen Gingerich (Margaret Wetheim, LA Times)


INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Village unites to foil robbers (Kathimerini)

Forum: The Russians Are Coming (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Mauritania Coup: Is It Wrong to Remove Rogue 'Democrats' By the Force of Arms? (Okello Oculi, AllAfrica.com)

A sting in Pakistan's al-Qaeda mission (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)

Thailand teeters on the brink (Shawn Crispin, Asia Times)

Gaddafi 'to hand out oil money' (BBC News)

Argentina to pay back $6.7bn debt (BBC News)

US hands over key Iraq province (BBC News)

Deadly bus blast in Philippines (BBC News)

Saakashvili a 'political corpse' (BBC News)