Tim has already done a great job of explaining his piece from the latest print issue which is available now on the main site.
Also, Sarah Posner has the latest on the religious right:
Palin's defense of her claim that she has foreign-policy experience because of the proximity of Russia to Alaska had, to my Armageddon-trained ears, a disturbing ring to it. When she asserted that she was prepared to go toe-to-toe with Russia because "as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America," he will be over Alaska, I had a little jolt. Rears his head? Kind of like the Antichrist?
And Robert Kuttner explains the politics of the financial crisis:
The Constitution provides that financial bills must originate in the House, but the leaders have agreed that this time the Senate will go first because the Senate seems to have the votes for the Paulson-Pelosi bailout plus a few new bells and whistles. The House can concur later. This prospect of a rescue of the rescue was enough to lift stock markets Tuesday, recouping about two-thirds of Monday's losses.
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