--Philip Caputo on Mexico's drug wars
--Tim Garton Ash and Anne Applebaum on 1989
--Gina Kolata on cancer drugs (really, it's fascinating!)
--Hanna Rosin on Christianity and the housing bust
--Elizabeth Kolbert on Freakonomics
--(TNR's own) Brad Plumer on Michael Specter's new book
--And The Onion on Sasha Obama's White House activities