From The Economist, a special report on waste: Talking rubbish. An interview with Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia: How the Whiter Half Lives. Many who don't care at all about New England would still find "Yankee" an interesting read. Here's advice from a person with a bachelor's degree in psychology. What would Horatio Alger do? Thousands of Americans are defying eviction notices and exercising civil disobedience. Welcome to the New Media Campaign Tools of 2012: The real secret of Obama's tech team — and what's next for online organizers. A review of Thomas Raymond Wellock's Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870-2000. A strange rush for the exit: In a world where life appears to be getting better, why are we in the grip of a suicide epidemic? Peter Osnos on

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