From Frontline, a special episode on Dreams of Obama. From Foreign Policy, the incoming U.S. president has made some impressive appointments, but he needs to start backing his words about fighting poverty and disease around the world with deeds; Marc Lynch on how to get out of Iraq; and why the U.S. Army's focus on nation-building at the expense of warfighting is misguided and dangerous. An Agenda for Obama: End America's counterproductive pursuit of space dominance. Someday we'll all look back on this and laugh — and Jim Cramer will laugh the loudest. Worried about your partner's bedpost notches? Get over it. A review of The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism. A look at how Oprah's Book Club is dumbing down readers and rewarding mediocrity. A review of Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf. From Cafe Babel, an article on Italy's communist revival: return to the hammer and sickle? What we didn’t know has hurt us: The Bush administration was pathological about secrecy; here’s what needs to be undone after eight dark years — and why it won’t be easy. Advances in brain scanning are allowing psychiatrists to move from cautiously diagnosing symptoms to actually seeing the underlying malfunctions of the mind. Is a GED more valuable than a PhD? In an economy where everyone is overqualified, having an advanced degree is virtually worthless.