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December 8, 2008 Issue
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Feature
Taking on the Pentagon, with its mega-budget and its mega-power, may be the hardest task Barack Obama faces.
In this last episode we mostly wrap things up, but leave a few strange matters for earthly or cosmic interpretation.
Editorial
Obama's too smart to allow the ideas of the past to define his presidency. Yet Timothy Geithner is an architect and enabler of the unfolding crisis.
Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky and Gene Seymour remember a noted author, editor, critic and all-around stellar human being.
If the courts don't overturn Proposition 8, expect an initiative challenging it to appear on a California ballot.
Kristina Rizga on harnessing young voters' energy, Stephen Duncombe on a spoof edition of the New York Times
Obama should make a serious campaign swing through Georgia to get out the vote for Senate hopeful Jim Martin.
No more free money from Washington. No more masters of the universe. No more business as usual.
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Column
Obama, who promised change, has put the same old Wall Street hustlers on his economic team. Maybe he could send us an e-mail to explain.
Wall Street was buoyed by the appointment of Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. But that can't offset worries that deflation will compound our economic woes.
Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been accused of insider trading. Is he guilty or just a target because of his larger-than-life persona and populist appeal?
Finally, a prochoice president. Here are five ways to solidify his position.
If America loses its domestic auto industry, 5 percent of the workforce may be on the street. Don't workers need a bailout, too?
Team of rivals for the twenty-first century.
Books & the Arts
James Wood may be the best literary critic we have, but the status he enjoys reveals just how far we have fallen.
The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson takes wing in two new books.
The Nobel Prize-winning author talks about Barack Obama, the writer; language; and her new novel, A Mercy .
Biographer Patrick French offers a vivid, sometimes enthralling portrait of a deeply enigmatic writer.
What possessed the fierce individualist George R. Stewart to compile a history of place-naming in the United States?
Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666 , is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.
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Letters
Working to Drop the Rock
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Crossword
ACROSS
1 Possibly senile, but that's one way to store things. (6)