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• The State of Iraq: An Update
  As 2007 comes to a close, how should we understand the situation in Iraq?
• A License for Local Reporting
  The outcome of Federal Communications Commission policy that matters most to us is not who owns what, but how much news gathering goes on.
• More Juice, Less Punch
  In a complex team sport like baseball, do performance-enhancing drugs make a difference sufficient to be detected in the players’ records?
• Weakening Pakistan
  Pakistanis need to turn out in force on Election Day to ensure that everybody — not just Pervez Musharraf — can have a say in Pakistan’s future.
• The Price of Food Safety
  President Bush should provide more financial support to the Food and Drug Administration, which presently has few resources to oversee food safety.
• Information Con Game
  Call it reform or call it revenge, but Congress has just passed a measure to tackle flaws in the Freedom of Information Act process.
• Buy This Sweater, Save a Seal
  Rooting out philanthropic hawkers is going to be tough, especially in the age of Internet retailing. For now, the direct route to charity seems best.
• Nightmare Before Christmas
  Even as the Wall Streeters are high-fiving and ordering up record shipments of Champagne and caviar, the American dream is on life-support.
• Disparities
  A Chicago schoolteacher questions the gender imbalance that exists in the state selective enrollment schools.
• Huckabee and the Democratic Ideal
  What the Democrats can learn from the Mike Huckabee approach.
• Flight Attendants vs. Passengers: Care to Step Outside?
  Are flight attendants really that rude and inattentive?
• Marketing Disorder
  An ad campaign about mental disorders hits a nerve.
• Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart
  How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
• Two Aesthetics
  Reactions to a new film, the New Museum . . . and an old television show.
• When They Told Me Norman Wrote a BookÂ…
  The author unearths a little-known book by Norman Mailer and finds himself in it.
• The Governor’s Nose Dive
  There is a lot of important business facing Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the New York State Legislature. It is time to put Troopergate among the footnotes in the history books.
• Arrogance and Warming
  President Bush’s decision to deny California permission to regulate global warming emissions from cars can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness.
• Slowing the Rise in Health Costs
  The good news is that many of the reforms analyzed by the Commonwealth Fund might improve the quality of health care delivered to Americans.
• A Crisis Long Foretold
  When all the truth is out about the twin crises of the subprime lending mess, the Federal Reserve will have company in the hall of shame.
• Blazing Arizona
  On Jan. 1, Arizona intends to become the first state to try to muscle its way out of its immigration problems on its own.
• Disappointments on Climate
  A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
• Gold in the Ivory Tower
  There’s a particularly corrosive shift taking place in higher education: the growing gap between super-wealthy colleges and universities — and the rest of the academic world.
• Hell on Wheels
  Unless you are a deep-sea diver or, maybe, an iron-ore salesman, your luggage really shouldn’t necessitate load-bearing wheels.
• The Vatican’s Relative Truth
  In Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the U.N. next April, will he be able to find a language to ensure that what he pitches is also what people catch?
• The Mourning After
  Widows and their children in many societies are shunned, abused and exploited.
• The Office I Left Giuliani
  Rudolph W. Giuliani’s claim to have turned around the Manhattan United States attorney’s office is an insult to the outstanding men and women who have served in that office over the last 50 years.