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

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

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

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

Green Jobs: Good Work If Youth Can Find It

Youth organizers have reason to hope green jobs can help change young lives.

Kristina Rizga

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

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

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

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

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

Doing the Recovery Right

America's transformation to a clean-energy economy could merge the aims of environmental protection and social justice.

Robert Pollin

Mystery of the Missing Pardons

Why were there no mentions of pardons before Bush boarded that helicopter to obscurity?

Terry Jones

What Would Molly Think?

Molly Ivins would have loved the outcome of the November election. In a way, she saw it coming.

Betsy Moon

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

Never Say You’re Sorry

Why do people like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and Gary Gensler keep getting the Obama administration's plum jobs?

Christopher Hayes

Senate Selection Scam

Russ Feingold is leading the charge to close the constitutional loophole that allows governors to appoint senators.

John Nichols

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

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

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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.

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Let the Sun Shine In

The era of secrecy in government is officially over.

Jon Wiener

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

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

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

The Defamation League

Abe Foxman and Bill Kristol gutlessly attack Bill Moyers and David Grossman.

Eric Alterman

So It Goes With Wall Street Titan John A. Thain

They all said he was a genius. They were wrong.

Calvin Trillin

The Tattoo Archipelago

The taxonomy of Russian criminal tattoos.

Megan Buskey

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

Let the Sun Shine In

The era of secrecy in government is officially over.

Jon Wiener

Schlepics: The Fiction of Angel Wagenstein

Angel Wagenstein and the evolution of modern Jewish storytelling.

Akiva Gottlieb

Back Talk: Nato Thompson

A conversation with Nato Thompson on experimental geography, Trevor Paglen and the outlook for the arts.

Christine Smallwood

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

Letter

...We All Scream for Howard Dean!

Kamuela, Hawaii

Our Readers and Anatol Lieven

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