Today At TNR (November 7, 2009)

• Unemployment Has Crept Over Ten Percent, and I Think That’s a Good Thing. What? by Noam Scheiber
• Did Rembrandt Reveal a Murder in One of His Paintings? An Intriguing Whodunnit Film. PLUS: 'The Maid.' by Stanley Kauffman
• The UN Report on Gaza Is Biased, Shoddy, and Unrealistic. But Israel Must Deal Honestly With Its Own Failures. by Moshe Halbertal
• Don’t Blame Obama for the Bad Economic News. Blame Congress. by Jonathan Chait
• From the TNR Archives: The Strange Genius of Oprah Winfrey, by Lee Siegel
• Is David Brooks Punking Me? He’s Got to Be Punking Me. by Noam Scheiber
• Is It Even Possible to Control the Cost of Heath Care? by Jonathan Cohn
• Max Baucus Gives the Passage of a Climate Bill THIS MUCH Chance, by Bradford Plumer
• What Happens When Emotions Overrun the Death Penalty Debate? by Christopher Orr

As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, metro policy debate on The Avenue, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Simon Johnson, Ed Kilgore, Damon Linker, and John McWhorter.