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1. Opinion: The Outsourced Life

We can hire others to do almost anything. But do we want to?

2. Op-Ed Columnist: Heartland Justice

Support for same-sex marriage can spring up far from the coasts.

3. Op-Ed Columnist: The Party of Julia

The Obama campaign invents a cartoon everywoman whose partner is, of course, big government.

4. Op-Ed Columnist: Leading Sarkozy to the Guillotine

A French tea party: Trying to escape her father’s racist past and rebrand her far-right party as more mainstream, Marine Le Pen channels Cardinal Richelieu.

5. Op-Ed Columnist: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

In the awakening Arab world, who is going to step up and speak the truth?

6. Op-Ed Columnist: A Battle With the Brewers

Thanks partly to Anheuser-Busch, alcoholism is an epidemic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Suddenly that Bud doesn’t taste so good.

7. Editorial: An Idea Worth Saving

Public financing, the most vital campaign reform, has collapsed. Will anyone try to revive it?

8. Op-Ed Columnist: Murdoch’s Pride Is America’s Poison

Fox is the empire’s good son, but also its most toxic legacy.

9. Editorial: The End of Clean Energy Subsidies?

Unless Congress acts, promising renewable power sources will wither and jobs will disappear.

10. News Analysis: Direct Democracy, 2.0

Germany has had its own outposts of the Occupy movement, but the country’s political preoccupation has been the organized challenge within the system that is the Pirate Party.

11. News Analysis: Chen Guangcheng’s Final Escape?

Chen Guangcheng has escaped from Chinese government detention before — and he was severely punished. But this time, the world is watching.

12. Exposures: Living in the New Metropolis

Documenting the megacities of our time.

13. Opinion: Science and Truth: We’re All in It Together

Internet-based crowdsourcing has come to determine the course of scientific research.

14. Editorial: Curling in Summertime

There’s a rink, two bull’s-eye targets and smooth stones to slide. But there are also brooms and a lot of yelling, and strategy.

15. Opinion: Why Black Women Are Fat

How many middle-aged white women fear their husbands will find them less attractive if their weight drops to less than 200 pounds?

16. Gray Matter: I.Q. Points for Sale, Cheap

Meaningful increases in intelligence are not likely without a substantial commitment of resources.

17. Editorial | Sunday Observer: Back to ‘Graceland’

A new film brings back the time when Paul Simon and South African artists recorded “Graceland,” a startling work of art created during the bitter years of of apartheid.