wednesday reads

Steve Fraser: Our Guilded Age and Theirs


Showdown at Knox College: Daily Kos diarist Elsinora vs. War Criminal John Ashcroft.


The Brad Blog takes a look at e-voting, registration and polling place problems in th Pennsylvania Primary


Bob Herbert: Clueless in America


The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.


An 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran was charged with revealing secrets about America's nuclear weapons, fighter jets and missiles to Israel more than 20 years ago in a case linked to an earlier spy scandal that strained U.S.-Israeli relations.


David Foster Wallace stranded on a desert island (h/t Bookslut)