- Race Politics, Police Beatings, and Boiled Sheep Heads: How the Hell Is Johannesburg Going to Be Ready to Host the World Cup Next Year? by Eve Fairbanks
- What Bernanke's Confirmation Hearing Tells Us About the Future of the Fed, by Noam Scheiber
- ‘Up in the Air’: Clooney’s Latest Is Very Good, but What Keeps It From Being Great? by Christopher Orr
- Three Ways the Copenhagen Summit Could Succeed (or Go Bust), by Jesse Zwick
- Scenes From the Tea Party Movie Premiere: Is the Movement Dead? Or Just Getting Started? by Lydia DePillis
- Peretz on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: ‘Historically Rooted, Politically Realistic, and Intellectually Challenging’, by Marty Peretz
- Don’t Get Too Excited That Bank of America is Repaying Its Government Loans, by Noam Scheiber
- How Congress Can Give a Boost to Rural Areas, by Mark Muro
As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, metro policy debate on The Avenue, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Simon Johnson, Ed Kilgore, Damon Linker, and John McWhorter.