Who gets the toughest coverage?

From Foreign Affairs, C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer (Minnesota): How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor. An interview with entomologist Hans Herren on a United Nations report calling for changes in how the world produces its food. Amartya Sen on how the global food problem is not being caused by a falling trend in world production, it is the result of accelerating demand. Forget the Large Hadron Collider: Here are the next 5 extreme research machines you need to know. Ma Jian is certainly not lacking in ambition, but in trying to create the Great Chinese Novel with Beijing Coma, he’s written the little man out of history. From TLS, a review of Doris Lessing's Alfred and Emily (and an interview at Bookforum). The world is not enough: Depending on where you stand, VS Naipaul is either a grand old man of letters or a grand old grump. Granta names Alex Clark as first female editor. Josh Patashnik on exposing the two biggest '08 myths. Candidates meet the press: Who gets the toughest coverage? From The Progressive, a look at why John McCain is a false moderate. Is Jim Webb too good for the vice presidency? Ezra Klein wants to know. A review of Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris and Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands (and more and more and more).