Sunday morning roundup--Part I

Living conditions for Royingya refugees are still squalid, dangerous and demeaning.

Malcolm Gladwell's article on the sociology of drinking is interesting, but we need more than a handful of anecdotes and highly localized, decades-old studies to buy his conclusions.

Sen. Bayh urges the country and its leadership to grow up, while pundits offer additional ideas for the Senate.

Nicholas Kristof on what it would be like if journalism worked like health care, as inspired by this piece on what air travel would be like under the same analogy. In the Post, an excerpt from a Rodale piece on why CT Scans epitomize the market failures of health care and why you can, theoretically, blame the Beatles.

The real estate bubble burst in suburban Atlanta; down-and-out Iowans turn to an emergency lottery; there's muted optimism in Detroit; and an insightful quote--"The Internet seems to run on Schadenfreude and hysteria"--from this perspective on a writer's recession.