This and That

Politics:

Cheap Dollar Diplomacy
Alan Dershowitz: "To Torture or Not to Torture"
Which candidate can better protect [the US] from the terrorists' nuclear attack? - American intellectuals in defense of torture?
Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

On recent financial crisis:

Why Houses Cost More in Summer: An economics mystery has finally been solved
Public Humiliation by James Surowiecki
Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals
Henry Paulson, Socialist: Republicans admit the free market doesn't work Republican-uud turul ariljiv uu?
The Wall Street Bailout Plan, Explained
Look on the Bright Side: Five reasons to give thanks for the financial collapse of the decade

Mundane stuff:

Brain Teasers
Guardian's "Satellite eye on Earth" series
Why students should learn to cook....

Literary stuff:

The story of my lives: Philip Roth's last book
"The Best Mind of His Generation" - A.O. Scott on David Foster Wallace
"Good People" by David Foster Wallace

Resources:

University of Chicago Writing Program: GRAMMAR RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Cornell University The Learning Strategies Center
Questia Newsletters
Professor Charles Lipson's "Politics, Culture, and Books" page