Coal: The View from 2,000 Feet
James Fallows flies his plane over the mines of West Virginia and discusses the future of energy
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
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James Fallows flies his plane over the mines of West Virginia and discusses the future of energy
What a lavish corporate New Year's party shows about attitudes toward income inequality in the former USSR
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Major economic indicators show broad improvement, but some aspects have healed more quickly than others
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Ring in 2011 by seeing great films that went unnoticed in 2010
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A contrarian argument that will startle many Americans gripped by "China is best at everything!" fever
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The problem with urging people to not visit South Carolina on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
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A roundup of the strongest titles of the year, from download-only favorites to online shoot-'em-ups to a motion tracking dance game
Cheap, everyday wines are underrated. That vintage bottle might be seven times more expensive, but is it seven times as good?
Can the world maintain its modest progress in 2010 toward greater peace and cooperation?
Their relative health will make the "too big to fail" problem even worse
Why are Republicans changing their tune on the dissolution of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
What Jane Austen's classic can teach us about income inequality
The Comedy Central host doesn't need to be the next Murrow to play a significant role in the public life of this country
The African Union itself laid the groundwork for the continent's latest political crisis
A guide to getting your bearings in the land of touch screens and voice control.
Four out of five retired three- or four-star generals go to work for firms that depend on Defense for business. Is that healthy?
Julian Assange has given Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe the ammunition he needs to take down his greatest challenger
.. and for the New York Times to pretend otherwise is just silly
Why only coal can stop global warming, the error-prone nature of dialysis, how to be a frugal divorcée, and more
