Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The incentives that drive our health care system

Features

POLICY

How American Health Care Killed My Father

The incentives that drive our health care system have perverse (and sometimes fatal) consequences. It's time for a radical change.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Buddha’s Savage Peace

Sri Lanka’s civil war is finally over. Can Buddhists and Hindus coexist there once again?

FINANCE

The Final Days of Merrill Lynch

The inside story of how the government forced Bank of America to acquire the financial management giant—and its spiraling losses

MAP

The Next Breadbasket?

How African agriculture could save the world from starvation

PROFILE

Hollywood’s Jewish Avenger

Quentin Tarantino talks about Jews, Nazis, and why his new film is so gruesome—even by his standards.

VIDEO:

Jeffrey Goldberg compares clips from Tarantino's new Nazi-themed movie with footage from Schindler's List and Munich

EDITOR'S NOTE

What’s Good for GM

GALLERY

The Shrinking American Car

GALLERY

Underwater

GALLERY

Nights in Iran

POETRY

Of Yield and Abandon

POETRY

Grave

AUDIO:

Billy Collins reads this poem aloud

ADVICE

What’s Your Problem?

Avoid destabilizing desserts, and other advice

THE PUZZLER:

dispatches

DISASTERS

In Case of Emergency

FEMA’s new administrator has a message for Americans: get in touch with your survival instinct.

CINEMA

Inbred Jed

The Strenuous Life of a B-Movie Zombie

VIDEO:

Highlights from Jed Rowen’s strange career

SPORT

The Bad Girl of Women’s Soccer

Hope Solo—loudmouth, showboat, jerk—may save her sport

IRAQ

Bovine Intervention

How cows can help win the peace in Fallujah

DRINK

How the West Was Drunk

The natural habitat of the Picon Punch—among Basque shepherds, in the wilds of California—is its great appeal.

TRAVEL

The 12:39 to Matanzas

A chocolate baron’s train shows tourists the real Cuba.

TECHNOLOGY

What Scares Google

How the search giant hopes to stay on top

Books

Sex and the Married Man

How Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards

The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards

A new memoir by the politician’s wife shows that the pain of infidelity pales in comparison to the loss of a child.

Cover to Cover

James Lasdun's latest; garden variety; Freudian food; and more

Columns

BUSINESS

What Would Warren Do?

The Sage of Omaha has redefined the idea of value investing. But will its principles survive his inevitable passing?

MOVING PICTURES

Woodstock Nation

Revisiting the 1969 mass freak-out, and the documentary that captured it all

VIDEO:

James Parker the 1969 Woodstock festival with the violent frenzy unleashed 30 years later

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