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After insulting veterans, Homeland Security gets a do-over on a report on right-wing extremism; mass transit comes to small towns.
May 20, 2009 / The Editors
Healthcare Bottom Lines Healthcare Bottom Lines
A realistic public healthcare plan should rein in costs, fix uncompetitive markets and change the way medicine is practiced.
May 20, 2009 / J. Lester Feder
Bankers’ Paradise Bankers’ Paradise
Congress, at the behest of the banking industry, has changed accounting rules to make company balance sheets even more opaque. How is that going to help?
May 20, 2009 / Chris Hayes
Obama’s Tortured Turn Obama’s Tortured Turn
Obama's reversal of the decision to release photos of detainee abuse is unsettling and wrongheaded.
May 20, 2009 / The Editors
London Falling London Falling
New Labour is finished. What replaces it will certainly be worse.
May 20, 2009 / Column / Gary Younge
Do ‘Better’ With Less Do ‘Better’ With Less
Shortcuts, blindness and downright dishonesty in the rapidly imploding mainstream media.
May 20, 2009 / Column / Eric Alterman
The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes The Long Goodbye? The Book Business and its Woes
Book publishers have always predicted that the end was nigh. When it does come they will have only themselves to blame.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Elisabeth Sifton
No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen
In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover
Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown Comfort and Agony: Jennifer Moxley’s Clampdown
Instead of offering healing or empowerment, the poetry of Jennifer Moxley explores vulnerability and "wrong life."
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Back Talk: Philip Alcabes Back Talk: Philip Alcabes
Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes discusses the social fears surrounding epidemics and why risk can't be eliminated from life.
May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood