From Frontline, a special episode on the business of bribes. The debt threat at Reader's Digest: A $2 billion burden from its private-equity takeover has put the 87-year-old icon in a financial jam. A review of Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia by John Garrard and Carol Garrard. A review of Greed: Why We Can't Help Ourselves by Richard Girling. More and more and more on Richard Posner's A Failure of Capitalism. A review of Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press by Michael Schudson. A review of What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith E. Stanovich (and an interview). In Man vs. Virus, the win goes to the swift. When black people don't perform as well on standardized tests, what should be done? John McWhorter investigates. When bullying leads to suicide: Confining notions of how a black man should look and act can have dangerous consequences. Donna Seaman reviews The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales and Stories by Stacey Levine. Backstory: A look at why we love prequels. Dark Sugar: An article on the decline and fall of high-fructose corn syrup. Rather than asking “Is free will compatible with determinism?” we should be asking “Is free will compatible with what modern science tells us about the universe?”