This week’s articles of note

"Afghan women and the return of the Taliban," Time, by Aryn Baker

"What the Great Recession has done to family life," New York Times Magazine, by Judith Warner 

"The crisis of middle-class America," Financial Times, by Edward Luce

"The key lesson of the BP oil spill? Don't panic," spiked, by Rob Lyons

"What social science does - and doesn't - know," City Journal, by Jim Manzi

"America's stadium-mob mentality," Salon, by David Sirota