Joanna Kakissis | Time | 31 May 2012 Interview with... Greece's next leader? "I have the sense that Greece is in a Cold War-like state with its debtors, meaning that both sides can push a button and destroy everything, knowing that there will be no winners after that" Comments Michael Moynihan | Tablet | 1 June 2012 They were German death camps on Polish soil. Obama mis-spoke. But Poland and the Jews have a troubled history. "Wartime Poland was a strange case of deeply rooted, historical anti-Semitism coexisting with anti-Nazi resistance" Comments Steven Pinker | Slate | 31 May 2012 Pinker takes on a "pseudo-controversy", the imagined clash between prescriptivist and descriptivist theories of language. "Once you understand that prescriptive rules are conventions, most of the iptivist controversies evaporate" Comments Luke Mullins | Washingtonian | 30 May 2012 You may have noticed this a few months ago and dismissed it as an academic squabble among policy wonks. Fleshed out here as a human drama, it makes for a thrilling read. A secret legacy! A power struggle! Battling billionaires! Comments Tom Murphy | Do The Math | 29 May 2012 "Ever wondered how efficient it is to heat water? Of course you have! Ever measured it?" Probably not, so here's Tom Murphy to take us through the relative merits of using stove-top pots, microwaves and kettles for heating water Comments Tom Verducci | Sports Illustrated | 29 May 2012 "This is a story about the hundreds, even thousands, of anonymous ballplayers whose careers and lives were changed by a temptation that defined an era." The temptation to cheat, to improve their game with the use of steroids Comments | 
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