Hsuan Hsu (UC-Davis) and Martha Lincoln (CUNY): Health Media and Global Inequalities. Der Spiegel goes inside a creepy global body parts business. From Harvard Magazine, a cover story on Atul Gawande, “slightly bewildered” surgeon and health-policy scholar — and a literary voice of medicine. No waiting: Here's a simple prescription that could dramatically improve hospitals — and American health care. From Slate, an article on the GOP's health care solution: It's Republicans, not Democrats, who are trying to kill the elderly; you thought the health care battle was ugly — just wait for the climate fight; and is TARP profitable? The filibuster begins: Gregory Koger on the fundamentals of filibustering — but is it constitutional, and well, how did we get here? A look at the rise of the 60-vote Senate. The case for busting the filibuster: It's time to abolish this undemocratic holdover from the days of slavery and segregation. A Clash of Camelots: Within months of J.F.K.’s death, the president’s widow asked William Manchester to write the authorized account of the assassination; Sam Kashner chronicles the toll the 1967 best-seller, The Death of a President, exacted before it all but disappeared. Torchlight Parades for the Television Age: David Greenberg on the presidential debates as political ritual.
