It's a comprehensive round-up of current thinking on whether or not we'll attack Iran. A think tank maintains it's not only doable, but manageable. Full disclosure: The submitter is the author.

Tongue in cheek, but expreses a legitimate fear that the afterlife may not be as peaceful as we think it is. Fresh perspective (says the reviewer, who -- full disclosure -- is also the author).

Full disclosure: The reviewer is the author. I think I showed that it's not always hypocrisy to protest the Olympics host country. I also demonstrated just how complex and nuanced the subject is.

Yes -- it pulls the most current opinions, if based on unnamed sources, from all over the media. (Full disclosure: The reviewer is the author.)

Yes, because it reveals to the public the important disarmament work that Sam Nunn has been doing. Also, it extracts the nuggets from his lengthy conversation with Arms Control Today, a publication that might intimidate many readers with its wonkish nature. Full disclosure: The reviewer is the author.

Pretty straightforward report of Spike Lee's reaction to Jeremiah Wright from a trustworthy publication.

It provides a new way of looking at food disorders. Perhaps anorectics and bulimics are on a valid, if wrongheaded quest. HuFull disclosure: The submitter wrote this article.

It's not just journalism, but analysis based on hunches not metrics. Why read it? It's original and exhibits fresh thinking on the part of the author (full disclosure: me)!

Author Don Williams picks up on a quote that went right over everybody's heads. Gates isn't the only one who should be confessing to mistakes -- so should the media for missing his!

This story gives Americans perspective on how some of the most humanitarian work in the world is being done elsewhere. Full disclosure: the author submitted the piece.

It's original. The author, in effect, reveals an alternate Triple Crown, as trailblazed by the Babe: on-field accomplishments, off-field exploits, and the massive insecurities that fuel both. (Full disclosure: The submitter is a staff blogger at S&R.)

Fascinating behind-the-scenes information.

The Bush administration likes to think of itself as nuclear policeman to the world. North Korea? Put those missiles back in your pants. Iraq? Wipe that nuclear smirk off your face. Iran? No nuclear for you at all.

It provides an overview of opinions of the recent IAEA report ElBaradei gave Iran on its nuclear weapons. It's interesting to see the different ways this was spun.

The author makes clear that if Afghanistan was Russia's Vietnam, Chechnya is its Iraq. A candidate for bravest woman of this young century, Anna Politkovskaya paid the ultimate price for her reporting on how much the Chechnyan people have suffered. The author provides an overview of the war and shows the strain of Politkovskaya's reporting on not only herself, but her familly.

The author explores what Hillary Clinton means by experience. Do her "experiences" add up to true experience infused by wisdom and knowledge. Haven't seen that broached elsewhere. Author offers a new perspective.

Even liberals sometimes buy into Reagan myth. Arch-liberal Krugman is the best man to puncture their fantasies.

Makes sense, if you don't mind author's ironic tone.

Article neatly plants idea in reader's head that Clinton, despite her husband's popularity with African-Americans, might not be above using racial divisiness. Especially in New Hampshire, which may still suffer from latent racism.

An overview of foreign view of US election is intriguing. But when newspapers limit their reporters to so few words, the resulting article isn't that useful.

Hockenberry, a former news person at NBC, describes what he witnessed while working on "Dateline." He chronicles incident after incident in which NBC brass not only opted for entertainment over hard news, but made no attempt to make use of or understand emerging technologies, like the Internet. Almost all of the story is first-hand.

Helpful article. Premise of article can't be repeated enough. That the skills that get one elected are completely useless once one is in office is the single greatest justification for campaign reform. One criticism. Authors write: "In 1860, Republican delegates knew Abraham Lincoln had the leadership skills to face the danger of the South leaving the Union, Beschloss said." I was dying to know how they knew that. The authors just left it hanging.

What, Krugman asks, are the Republican presidential candidates still doing supporting Bush's policies? He makes it crystal clear that "On economics, and on much else, there is no common ground between the parties." No one is more trustworthy than Krugman, despite how hard it is to trust his employer.

Shahzad may be the single best reporter and commentator on Pakistan. Also, you can seldom go wrong with Asia Times Online, a site that every American should read.

Thanks are due Ray McGovern for reminding us "that in February 2001 [NSA director] Hayden saluted smartly when the Bush administration instructed NSA to suborn AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest to spy illegally on you, me, and other Americans. Bear in mind that this would have had nothing to do with terrorism, which did not really appear on the new administration's radar screen until a week before 9/11" Germans would have remained loyal to Hitler, despite his brutalities on the home front, if he hadn't tried to conquer the world. Sadly, Americans don't seem so different.

It looks like the Bush administration, which has given new meaning to the word “grudging,” is once again doling out crumbs for the sake of appearance. Had Bush joined a support group upon becoming sober he might have internalized one of its most important adages: “Half measures avail us nothing.”

"They go to the ocean to fish but there ain't no fish - there's plastic. They then regurgitate it down the necks of their fledglings and it kills them. After the birds decompose, the plastic gets washed back into the ocean where it can kill again. It's a form of ghost fishing." Truly an apocalyptic scenario. What have we wrought?