Nathaniel Rich | NYT | 21 March 2012 New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward was slated to become "green space" post-Katrina. But some residents wanted to return. So the result, generously put, is laissez-faire. Population down by three-quarters; flora and fauna running riot Comments Garrett Epps | American Prospect | 21 March 2012 Legal background to the Trayvon Martin case. New laws in Florida and other American states make it easy to plead self-defence for almost any act of violence. And when the victim is dead, that plea is hard to contradict Comments Brian Love | Reuters | 21 March 2012 Francois Hollande might have expected to continue spending Friday nights sleeping in his constituency office in rural Correze. But presumed Socialist presidential candidate DSK self-destructed. Hollande now has Sarkozy on the run Comments Andy Kroll | Mother Jones | 21 March 2012 Walmart wants to go green: So change the corporate culture. But then there are all Walmart's overseas suppliers. And all the suppliers' sub-contractors. By the time you reach southern China, the message is a lot fainter Comments Troy Hooper | SF Weekly | 14 March 2012 "It's been over 50 years, but Wayne Ritchie says he can still remember how it felt to be dosed with acid." So begins the chilling story of MK-ULTRA, a covert CIA operation used to test the effects of LSD on unsuspecting Americans Comments James Altucher | Altucher Confidential | 19 March 2012 "I came up with an ultra-perfect top-secret method for beating the stock market. I saw it right there on the screen after 30 straight hours of computer programming. My heart was beating fast. I was sweating when I went to sleep" Comments | 
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