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...debt are small, if the recession drags on the odds that the government will have trouble raising money to finance the deficit will rise. To keep its credit rating, the American government will be faced with curtailing many of its stimulus programs or sharply raising the tax burden. Either action could slow any recovery making a burgeoning deficit a "Catch 22″ in which no alternative is acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.K. Debt Moves Sovereign Borrowing Issue Closer To U.S. | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...Freud, Miller sees sex everywhere; all our acquisitions of personal goods, according to Miller, are motivated by the primal desire for procreation, pleasure or both. Though he advocates abolishing income taxes in favor of a "consumption tax" and learning to buy secondhand, he isn't a utopian hippie radical either. "Unlike many malcontents," Miller writes, "I consider the three best inventions of all time to be money, markets and media." But while Miller does his best to avoid sounding too academic (and has an ear for pulled-from-TMZ.com phrases like "insecure, praise-starved flattery-sluts"), his broad, rambling arguments read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Sells. Here's Why We Buy | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...Most of the other issues swirling in the lawyer-soldier tornado are either trivial or meretricious. The recent fuss over where to put the Guantánamo prisoners is tawdry politics, incited by desperate Republicans with the supine complicity of congressional Democrats. There are plenty of convicted terrorists currently serving time in U.S. jails. That's why we have supermax prisons, like Administrative Maximum in Florence, Colo. Those convicted in military courts should be held in military prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Middle Ground on Enemy Combatants | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...tried to do that in almost every event that we've done from, you know, the White House Kitchen Garden to whenever we go to a school and read to kids. Either their teachers or the kids will be invited back here very soon. That's sort of a theme. (See pictures of the White House kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...hand, I forgot, you know. Usually I walk out, walk Bo, usually no one is screaming, or whatever. So there are just ways that you can either be in the midst of all the excitement, and there are many ways you can avoid it. And the longer you're around, you learn all the little channels of sort of, Oh, I'm not going in that door, not right now. [Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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