- James Fallows has a list of airline frequent flier programs and the percentage of their flights that are available for reward travel. You can book reward travel on 99.3% of Southwest flights, and on 10.7% of US Airways flights. * Mike Monteiro explains how to buy design. * Laurence Koltikoff says the US is bankrupt. * PolitiFact looks into the claims we see flying around about anchor babies. They rate it as half true, I rate it as utter and complete nonsense. * Paul Graham talks about what went wrong at Yahoo. * National Geographic photographer Mark Thiessen talks about fighting wildfires in Russia.