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Containing such timely articles as "How Bad Is It? The Economy After the Debt Ceiling Agreement" and "The Business of Austerity: Why Wall Street Should Fear the Tea Party." The cover itself, titled "S.O.S," is by Christoph Niemann, who is no stranger to gracing the cover of "The New Yorker."
I am also quite fond of Robert Risko's cover for a late 2008 issue which references a particular piece of Gothic literature.
(1) Filmmaker unearths two 30-minute 3D films from 1936 ... made by the Third Reich (via The Guardian)
(2) Matt Taibbi asks - and answers - the question "Why isn't Wall Street in jail?" (via Rolling Stone)(3) Andrew Sullivan on shrinking the prison population (via The Atlantic)(4) Philiosopher/critical theorist Slavoj Žižek on cultural capitalism and the tragedy, farce of charitable giving (via RSA Animate and YouTube)(5) Baby gets drunk, trashes Las Palmas bar (via YouTube)