Amelia Gentleman | Guardian | 9 May 2012 Shocking report from London. Priced out of housing market, some are forced to rent garden sheds. One family pay to live in a walk-in freezer. Landlords happy to cash in. What does this say about free markets, capitalism, society? Comments Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 9 May 2012 Enjoyable account of London's long and expensive journey from candidate city to host of 2012 Olympics. Contract enforces extraordinary commercial demands and allows IOC to act like a state within a state. Was it all worth it? Comments Robert Worth | NYT | 9 May 2012 Gripping report on a turning of the tables in Libya. Many of the Gaddafi regime's jailers and torturers are now themselves in prison. Where their victims may confront them, and in some cases exact retribution Comments Marcus Walker | WSJ | 10 May 2012 Excellent on recent destruction of Greece. Papandreou begged Merkel to soften terms of bailout. Merkel refused, said pain was necessary: "We want to make sure nobody else will want this." There's European solidarity for you Comments Jonathan Rauch | Brookings | 9 May 2012 "With his switch from ambivalence to advocacy, Obama is sending a signal to the courts that the country is ready for gay marriage, giving them cover to uphold it. Courts like to stay within the mainstream. Obama has just moved it" Comments Gabriel Rossman | Atlantic | 8 May 2012 "Economists would describe hostage negotiation as a bilateral monopoly price negotiation that is structurally just a special case of chicken." Only two things matter: Willingness to accept failure, and capacity to pay Comments | 
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