I am in love with the the NYT (One-Page) Magazine: 

You have to think that historians will probably look back on the 2011 Congressional “supercommittee” and wonder what on earth we were thinking. It’s as if the greatest minds in Washington said to themselves, Hmmm, if only there were some respected assemblage of lawmakers — representatives from both parties, perhaps — that could get together and hammer out an equitable budget compromise. Eureka! Such a group already exists: It’s called Congress, and there’s no reason to think its epic failure can be overcome just by putting it under a shrink ray.