Ta-Nehisi Coates | Atlantic | 23 August 2012 Obama offers himself to white Americans not as a black politician, but as a politician who happens to be black. His genius lies in doing this without denying or diluting the blackness that he signals to black Americans Comments Steve Volk | Philadelphia | 24 August 2012 "No one knows why some people can recover from a traumatic event while others require treatment for PTSD. But we do know the urban poor may be even worse off than our country’s soldiers." Life in inner-city Philadelphia shows why Comments Amy Shira Teitel | Crux | 23 August 2012 Already know why the sky's blue during the day? Well done. But did you know it's starting to turn red at night now. Here's why it's happening, why it's important and what we can expect from the night sky in the future Comments Özlem Gezer | Spiegel | 23 August 2012 "He worked at his uncle's falafel stand and read Immanuel Kant, and later Plato and Nietzsche. In the end, he became a radical Islamist, recruiting new talent for a Muslim holy war in the middle of Hamburg. Djamal was the hunter" Comments David Amsden | Rolling Stone | 16 August 2012 Indian spiritual guru Mata Amritanandamayi specialises in hugs. So far 30 million have felt her rapturous embrace. Followers believe she's a divine soul in a human body. But she's commercial too and, allegedly, violent and abusive Comments Adam Davidson | NYT | 21 August 2012 No, not Ayn Rand but the Austrian economist Friedrich Von Hayek. Much maligned, widely misunderstood; here's what he believed. And take note, he wasn't a conservative; he didn't want to conserve anything Comments | 
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