Tim Dickinson | Rolling Stone | 9 November 2011 History of modern American fiscal policy, from the inflation of the 1970s through to the Bush tax cuts and the Tea Party. Because it's in Rolling Stone it's actually fun to read, and full of stuff to make non-rich people angry Comments Anthony Shadid | Frontline | 8 November 2011 Hafez al-Assad was a ruthless cynic who ruled Syria with fear and violence. Son Bashar thought he could lighten up, get popular, and hold on to power that way. Wrong. Once you've built a wall of dread, you can't dismantle it Comments Simon Johnson | Baseline Scenario | 10 November 2011 "If your choice is global calamity or the printing of money, which would you choose?" Presumably the latter, though it's no long-term solution. The alternative, a European sovereign debt crisis, would be disastrous. Even for Germany Comments Roger Highfield | Telegraph | 8 November 2011 How a quantum theory experiment may soon resolve Schrödinger's cat conundrum, removing need for parallel worlds and proving "that the possibilities of a living and a dead cat do indeed collapse into one reality when we look at it" Comments Steve Silberman | Fray | 10 November 2011 "My dad was always a punctual man, even in death." Steve Silberman remembers the life and death of his father in this moving and very personal essay Comments Ted Mann | Vanity Fair | 11 November 2011 Intrepid writer goes to Peru in search of hallucinogen ayahuasca. Encounters mysterious shamans and seven-storey pyramid on the Amazon, built by an Englishman inspired by the mind-altering drug. Then he tries it himself Comments | 
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