Taming the Budget Deficit - Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe

Enron's Ken Lay and BP’s Tony Hayward: Paid to Be Reckless - Robert Bryce, Daily Beast

Democrats 2010 Campaign Strategy: A Triple Bank Shot - David Corn, Politics Daily

The Banks That Cried Wolf - Daniel Gross, Slate

Winners and Losers in the Gaza Conflict - Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect

Are Women's Rights Really the Issue? - Der Spiegel

Haitians Still Wait for Recovery - E. Thomas Johnson, Los Angeles Times

A Colossal Fracking Mess - Christopher Bateman, Vanity Fair

The Real Math of Debt Reduction - Ezra Klein, Newsweek

The Renminbi Runaround - Paul Krugman, New York Times

Assessing the Health Effects of the Oil Spill - Bryan Walsh, Time

Nation Building in Afghanistan Isn't Our Job - It's the Afghani's - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Republicans to the Unemployed: You're Lazy - Donna Trussell, PoliticsDaily.com

It's Not an Army of One - Anthony Woods, Daily Beast

The Wound that Stanley McCrystal Opened - E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post

The Afghanistan Reboot: Can Obama and Petraeus Work Together? - Joe Klein, Time

Crisis Management 101 - John Dickerson, Slate

Lose a General, Win a War - Thomas Ricks, New York Times

Replacing McChrystal Doesn’t Change Anything - Michael Hirsh, Newsweek

The Militarization of American Politics - Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

Viacom's Loss Is a Win for Online Speech - Dan Gillmor, Salon

Taking The Gloves Off For BP - Joshua Green, Boston Globe

The Good News From Beijing - Matthew Yglesias, American Prospect

Steve Parsons looks at the absurd defenses offered for the blockade of Gaza.