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Feature
The Pseudo Stimulus
There is much less to Obama's stimulus plan than meets the eye. What's he going to do about it?
James S. Henry
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Stimulus: One Percent for the Imagination
One percent of the stimulus package should be spent on rehabilitating America's crumbling cultural infrastructure.
John Cavanagh, E. Ethelbert Miller and Melissa Tuckey
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Obama’s Security Priorities
He has significantly pivoted US policy on torture. But where the president stands on warrantless wiretapping should give progressives some cause for concern.
Aziz Huq
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A City Made of Waste
Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are reassembled into creative dwellings for the poor.
Teddy Cruz
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Green Jobs: Good Work If Youth Can Find It
Youth organizers have reason to hope green jobs can help change young lives.
Kristina Rizga
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Newark’s Great Green Hope
Even without an infusion of federal dollars, green jobs are becoming a reality in cities like Newark, New Jersey.
J. Lester Feder
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Think Solar, Think Small
The greening of America's power grid is a challenge to reject mega-projects in favor of local ones that harness renewable resources.
Craig D. Rose
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Ticket to Ride
The greenest way to lift the country out of a deepening recession is to put people to work building mass transit.
Ben Adler
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Help Wanted for Green Jobs
It's inspiring to have a president who talks the talk on green-collar jobs. But we need megawatts, not just megawords.
Liza Featherstone
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The Power of Transparency
Obama can ensure his recovery plan is untainted by corruption and waste by mandating controls that track where money flows and evaluate results.
Greg LeRoy
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Doing the Recovery Right
America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.
Robert Pollin
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Editorial
Mystery of the Missing Pardons
Why were there no mentions of pardons before Bush boarded that helicopter to obscurity?
Terry Jones
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What Would Molly Think?
Molly Ivins would have loved the outcome of the November election. In a way, she saw it coming.
Betsy Moon
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The Mitchell Moment
Will the president have the courage to allow George Mitchell to apply the lessons of his experience of high-stakes conflict resolution?
Roane Carey
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Never Say You’re Sorry
Why do people like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler keep getting the Obama administration's plum jobs?
Chris Hayes
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Senate Selection Scam
Russ Feingold is leading the charge to close the constitutional loophole that allows governors to appoint senators.
John Nichols
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Bush’s War Totals
The human cost of Bush's war: 1 million dead. 4.5 million displaced. 1 million to 2 million widows. 5 million orphans.
John Tirman
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Noted.
Katha Pollitt on Obama and global gag rule, Megan Buskey on AIDS in Iran, Corbin Hiar on elections in Ghana, Sonia Shah on scientists for human rights
the Editors
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Go Geoghegan!
Tom Geoghegan, labor lawyer, writer and activist, is running for Congress on a platform that's a model for the post-meltdown era.
the Editors
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Column
Wall Street in Washington
Of the three tax-challenged Obama appointees, only Timothy Geithner has survived. Is that luck or is there still something special about being from Wall Street?
Robert Scheer
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The Recession Bowl
In America's first hard-times Super Bowl, superb athletes and a thrillingly played game rose to the challenge. Maybe the country can, too.
Dave Zirin
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Beyond Hope
When the government is organizing a movement to back the government in the name of progressive politics, something is seriously awry.
Gary Younge
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The Defamation League
Abe Foxman and Bill Kristol gutlessly attack Bill Moyers and David Grossman.
Eric Alterman
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So It Goes With Wall Street Titan John A. Thain
They all said he was a genius. They were wrong.
Calvin Trillin
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Books & the Arts
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A City Made of Waste
Across the border from San Diego in Tijuana, a spontaneous urban space is taking shape off the radar of city planners, as an affluent city sheds its aging houses and its pieces are reassembled into creative dwellings for the poor.
Teddy Cruz
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Schlepics: The Fiction of Angel Wagenstein
Angel Wagenstein and the evolution of modern Jewish storytelling.
Akiva Gottlieb
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Back Talk: Nato Thompson
A conversation with Nato Thompson on experimental geography, Trevor Paglen and the outlook for the arts.
Christine Smallwood
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Further Adventures in Editing: Ted Solotaroff at ‘Commentary’
Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz and Alfred Chester contribute to the education of an editor. Second of a two-part memoir.
Ted Solotaroff
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Letters
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Crossword
Puzzle No. 3156
ACROSS
1 Accompanying the little devil, you get everything together--and can't be blamed this way! (4,8)
Frank W. Lewis