The minor candidates get their say, though they are, not surprisingly, covered more sketchily.

ECONOMIST: How Barack Obama beat the Clintons and won the White House

With little leeway to increase social spending, the new president announced a sketchily defined package of structural reforms, so at least money might be better spent.

ECONOMIST: Argentina

The intertwined stories in this drama by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani a Christian Arab and a Jew, both from Israel are cleverly conceived and carefully observed, if sketchily realized.

NEWYORKER: Ajami