Zakaria: ‘Fatal wound’ inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology  —  Editor's note: Fareed Zakaria is an author and foreign affairs analyst who hosts “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN at 1 and 5 p.m. ET Sundays.  —  The decisive margin of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in elections …

Mousavi's statement number 5 to Iranian people  —  In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful  —  God commands you to return what you've been entrusted with to its owners, and to judge in justice when you judge among the people.  [Koranic quote]  —  Honorable and intelligent people of Iran,

Will calls right-wing attacks on Obama's Iran response ‘foolish criticism.’  —  Since turmoil broke out in Iran over the country's disputed elections last week, conservatives have been forcefully criticizing President Obama for not doing enough to intervene on the side of those protesting.

Media Agreed to Stay Silent on Kidnapping of Reporter David Rohde  —  News Organizations Agreed to Protect Reporter's Safety  —  There were times during the kidnapping ordeal of New York Times reporter David Rohde when his boss wavered in his determination to suppress the story.

IRAN: Footage of woman apparently shot in Tehran galvanizes opposition  —  A disturbing video showing a young woman purportedly shot in the streets of Tehran is becoming a rallying symbol for opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  —  It is one of many images and video posted on the Internet …

Obama Closes Doors on Openness  —  From the magazine issue dated Jun 29, 2009  —  As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding “secret energy meetings” with oil executives at the White House.  But last week public-interest groups were dismayed …

Goldman to make record bonus payout  —  Surviving banks accused of undermining stability  —  Staff at Goldman Sachs staff can look forward to the biggest bonus payouts in the firm's 140-year history after a spectacular first half of the year, sparking concern that the big investment banks …

In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health  —  Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Slavery and the Health Care Crisis  —  The gravity of America's health care crisis is the moral equivalent of the 19th Century's bloody conflict over slavery.  This is not hyperbole, though the truth of it is often lost in abstract talk of insurance company profits, treatment costs, and other cold, inhuman analyses.

Obama's Response  —  Did you notice how many times he invoked the word “justice” in his message?  That's the word that will resonate most deeply with the Iranian resistance.  What a relief to have someone with this degree of restraint and prudence and empathy - refusing to be baited by Khamenei …

If It's Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist?  —  Nearly a century ago, the jurist Louis Brandeis railed against what he called the “curse of bigness.”  He warned that banks, railroads and steel companies had grown so huge that they were lording it over the nation's economic and political life.