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Letter from Ann Arbor | A reader laments the closing of his town’s newspaper COMMENTARY Some suggestions on what papers elsewhere might do to avoid having to pull the plug. Among them: ‘keep the audience enthused, even angry – but always involved.’ 
The overseas press | U.S. health care reform, seen from abroad COMMENTARY The overseas press: As in the U.S., reports focus on the need for universal health care, cost control, and the high political stakes for Obama.
George Wilson's column | Afghanistan is Obama’s war. What’s he going to do with it? COMMENTARY General McChrystal wants far more Afghan security forces than planned so that they can fight their own war. Is that just setting the stage, a la Vietnam, for putting pressure on President Obama to escalate the American troop involvement?
From CongressDaily | Push is coming to shove over the Pentagon budget COMMENTARY George C. Wilson writes that President Obama and Secretary Gates are at risk of being steamrolled by Congress, which is treating military spending as a jobs program for hard times.
‘They dump the sick’ | Wendell Potter, speaking from experience, exposes health insurers’ misleading, profit-driven tactics COMMENTARY “They are trying to make you worry,” says the former Cigna executive, “and fear a government bureaucrat between you and your doctor. What you have now is a corporate bureaucrat between you and your doctor.”
Letter from Kuwait | Iraq’s neighbor to the south continues to play a pivotal role for the American military COMMENTARY Kuwaitis accept the American presence but aren’t exactly comfortable with it. At the same time, unlike almost all other Middle Eastern Arab countries, Kuwait is moving toward democracy. Signs of it include electing women to the National Assembly when as recently as 2004 women couldn’t even vote.
Not just a ‘new media’ problem | Taking steps to deal with media parasitism COMMENTARY As non-profit journalism grows in importance, donors and practitioners should adopt and enforce standards that give credit to sources instead of pilfering their ideas and riding roughshod over them.
| In poll, 6 in 10 Americans approve complete ban on torture COMMENTARY A majority opposes nearly all methods of torture. But among Republicans surveyed, 44% approve a complete ban now, compared to 68% in a 2004 survey.
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