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February 23, 2009 Issue

Marc Perelman on demonstrations in France, Nicholas von Hoffman on letters from the unemployed, Alexander Cockburn on Barack Obama.

Cover art by: Cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

Tiny Tim Sings Off-Key

Geithner was condescending, vague and infuriating as he lectured us on the troubled financial system, feeding a suspicion that he's still working for the other side.

Biden v. Summers

As Larry Summers takes a dominant role in crafting economic policy, it's up to Joe Biden to protect the interests of the middle class.

Column

No Tough Love for Bankers

If you still get those chatty e-mails from the Obama campaign, remind them that we voted for a community organizer from Chicago, not some hack carrying water for Wall Street.

All of Them Must Go

As cities around the world are rocked with protests, it's clear governments that respond to economic crisis with the discredited free-market agenda will not survive.

Letters

Feature

Screwed by the Fine Print

Hidden in the fine print of credit card agreements, patient consent forms and job contracts is an arbitration clause that deprives you of your rights. Congress needs to fix that.

The New Gold Standard: Jobs

Keeping labor costs down used to be the standard to measure productivity. Now, it's all about creating jobs--and we can't afford to wait for the private sector to provide them.

Angry America and the Bailout

As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...

Save the Solis Nomination

Labor secretary-designee Hilda Solis is not a toxic asset in the Obama personnel portfolio. The GOP is wrong to equate her husband's tax dispute with the infractions of high roller...

Mail Matters

Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?

Books & the Arts

Angry America and the Bailout

As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possib...

Mail Matters

Will the Obama administration reaffirm the civic mandate of the Postal Service that was damaged during the Bush years?

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