Afghanistan

President Appoints Deficit Panel, Terror Trials Trouble, Olympics Update, Operation Mostarak, Listeners Weigh In, There Are No Small Roles

Number Two Taliban Commander Arrested, N.I.H. Chief On Science, Health And Faith, Living In Boston With No Central Heat- By Choice, Alabama Shooting Raises Questions In Massachusetts, Violin Prodigy Sam Weiser

U.S. Troops Facing Resistance in Marja, To Help Haiti, Expert Says Let Haitians Leave, Is The Solution To Haiti’s Housing Woes Fiberglass?, Winter Olympics Update, John McCain Is Feeling The Heat, Smelt Fishing In America

Tony Blair Testifies about Run-up to Iraq War, What Could Work in Afghanistan?, Schools Move Recess — Before Lunch, Massachusetts School Connects with Haiti through Book Exchange, John Singer Sargent and the Painting that Made His Reputation

Bankers Scrutinized Over Financial Meltdown, Aid Organizations and Haitian-Americans Mobilize Resources for Earthquake Recovery, New Poll Finds Afghans More Optimistic about Country, Personal Scandals Rock Politics in Northern Ireland

The Battle for Tora Bora, Operation Marriage, iTV?, Food Stamps, Christmas Jollies

Fort Hood Soldiers Deploy, Legendary British Newspaperman Harold Evans, More NATO Troops to Afghanistan, Author Greg Mortenson, Foodie Ted Allen

Afghanistan, Saving Wetlands in Louisiana, The DARPA Challenge, Google Zeitgeist, Food History

War Surtax, What’s the Right To Do?, Biodiversity in the Deep Sea, The Card Game, Thanksgiving Sides

Hearings on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Trial, Climate Debt, Karzai’s Inauguration, Concerns about Reverse Mortgages, ‘The Lacuna’

Guantanamo Detainees to Illinois?, China in Afghanistan, ‘Twilight’ Mania, ‘Don’t Be Creepy,’ ‘Lark and Termite’

9/11 Mastermind to be Tried in New York, ‘Million-Dollar Throw’, Iranian Dissidents in Iraq, The Porous Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Letters, Pirate Radio

Afghan President, Internet Stimulus Money, Election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, Quick Note on Ground Beef Recall, The Fall of the Wall, Poncho Sanchez

9/11-Linked Passport Discovered in Pakistan, Rosanne Cash and ‘The List’, Afghanistan, Biotech Companies and Health Care Reform, Letters, The Death of Edgar Allen Poe

Afghanistan, A Medicare Primer, World Series, Civil Commitment, The Tree That Time Built

Afghanistan Run-off Election, Making It In the USA, Who is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce?, Stalemate Continues in Honduras, ‘Calling My Children’

Afghan Elections, Farmer Soldiers, High School Breathalyzer, Group Health, The New Portuguese Cuisine

Anxiety Turns to Skepticism Over ‘Balloon Boy’, Where The Wild Things Are, The Cost of War, Five Farms, Part Five, Nashville Artist Will Hoge’s ‘The Wreckage’

Af-Pak Strategy Reconsidered, Online Gambling, New Japanese Cemetery, Neko Case

Father Seeks Answers after Son Killed in Battle of Wanat, Wall Street Considers Bundling Life Insurance Policies, Court Decision on Italy’s Berlusconi, American Girl Doll, What’s Next for David Letterman?, The Gabe Dixon Band

Health Care Debate in Congress, Accused Terrorist Zazi Pleads Not Guilty, Chicago School Violence, President Considers Path Forward in Afghanistan

Taliban Learning New Tactics, Cantaloupe Capital Suffering from Drought, Multi-Taskers Don’t Make Good Jugglers, Hugo Chavez on Tour, Sin Nombre

Afghanistan Elections, Do Doctors Make Good Authors?, Choosing Silence, Seniors and Health Care Reform, From Mao to the Met

A Young Marine, Visit to Afghanistan, Distracted Drivers, Beauty and Evolution, The Leaf, Krazy Love

After his fourth trip to Afghanistan, writer and former Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West shares his thoughts on U.S. strategy there.

Cash for Clunkers, Afghan Star TV show, Curbing CEO Pay, Bike Polo, Steroid Scandal Snares Ortiz & Ramirez, “Escape from Bellevue” memoir

Marines Storm into Southern Afghanistan, America: The Untold Story, Sports with Bill Littlefield, Energy Secretary Profile, Singer-Songwriter Freedy Johnston

Securing Pakistan’s Nukes, The Road Ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan, All Female Ant Species, Underwater Robot Undertakes Atlantic Mission, Allegra Huston

G-20 Protests, What Does Pakistan Want in Afghanistan?, Man v. Tiger, An Island for Abusive Priests?, Learning about Frogs

Afghanistan, Jeffrey Fleishman, Kyrgyzstan, North Dakota, Letters, Video Game Music Beyond the Beeps