From The Nation, Gretchen Morgenson is the most important financial journalist of her generation. The fact that the government has to have a "safety net" to catch those who would slip between the cracks of our economic system is evidence that Christians fail to do God's work. Mark Levine on why the FBI squelched an investigation of a post-9/11 meeting between white supremacists and Islamic extremists. Chimeras of experience: An interview with Jonah Lehrer (and Jenny Davidson's review of Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist at Bookforum). Has reality TV sucked the drama out of confirmation hearings? The latest scandal involving Perez Hilton presents an opportunity to ask the million dollar question: How has this half-literate typist become one of the most prominent gay people in the country? (and a cover story at

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