William Rashbaum | NYT | 20 December 2011 Classic New York corruption story. State senator drove Bentley, lived in "garish" Brooklyn mansion built for a mafia boss. Used "baby talk" with his "intimate companion", a gynaecologist, who handled the incoming bribes Comments Martin Feldstein | Foreign Affairs | 15 December 2011 Outstanding essay on history of euro crisis, way forwards for single currency: "The eurozone is likely to continue with almost all its current members. The challenge now will be to change the economic behavior of those countries" Comments Peter Miller | National Geographic | 16 December 2011 "To biomedical researchers all over the world, twins offer a precious opportunity to untangle the influence of genes and the environment—of nature and nurture." Super feature looks into what makes identical twins different Comments Peter Ling | History Today | 20 December 2011 Interesting essay on activist Malcolm X. Should we consider him a civil rights leader? Probably not, his association with Nation of Islam undermines this view. It's also wrong to claim media misrepresented him. Rather, they made him Comments Jerrold Post | Foreign Policy | 20 December 2011 Ex-CIA analyst discusses Syrian leader's trajectory from moderniser to mass-murderer. Parallels with Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam. Both spent time in the West, enough to learn new ideas, but not enough for deep change Comments Anonymous | Economist | 17 December 2011 "Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority." But revisiting Luther in 16th Century Germany, shows social media is nothing new Comments | 
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