Today At Tnr (april 28, 2009)

• TNR's Complete Flu Coverage: Is Mexico City Going To Hell? How Scared Should We Be? And Is The U.S. Government Handling This Right?

• A Defense Of Our Universities: Is America's System Of Graduate Education Really The Detroit Of Higher Learning? by David A. Bell

• How Democrats Can Get Health Reform Without Sacrificing Too Much, by Harold Pollack

• TNRtv: Larry Summers Just Laid Out The Clearest Vision Of Obama's Economics Policy Thus Far. I'm Still Not Satisfied. by Simon Johnson

• How Vikings, Plunderers, and Pirates Created The Atlantic World, by Peter N. Miller
• Defusing The Biden Bomb: What's Going To Happen When The Vice President Says Something Untoward? Because He Will, by Michelle Cottle 
• Memo To Obama: How To Investigate Bush's Interrogation Methods, by William Galston

As always, be sure to check out the current issue of the print magazine, economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Damon Linker, John McWhorter, and Alan Wolfe.