Today’s must-reads:
- British government has balls, plans to break up big bailed-out banks (WaPo)
- Ford makes a billion dollars (NYT)
- GM’s Money Trees (MoJo)
- Lawrence Wright on Gaza (The New Yorker)
- Corn on “Hardball”: Cheney Forgets Plamegate (MoJo)
- An insurance industry CEO explains why American health care costs so much (Ezra Klein)
- The reason the climate bill is going to suck (Grist)
- Meet the Crooks Behind Your New Knee (MoJo)
- Researcher exposes the murderer of Charlotte Brown (Letters of Note)
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