After Effects

Guest host Jeffrey Toobin fills in for Leonard today. It’s been six months since the tsunami killed thousands in Southeast Asia. In our weekly Underreported feature, we’ll find out how different communities are dealing with the aftermath. Next, Harper’s contributor Ken Silverstein discusses pork barrel spending in an article for the July issue of the magazine. And New Yorker staff writer George Packer looks at the consequences of one individual soldier’s death in Iraq.