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July 13, 2009 Issue

William Greider on financial reform, Calvin Trillin on adultery, Stuart Klawans on Beaches of Agnès and Afghan Star…

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Editorial

Saving Troy Davis

The president of the NAACP explains why he has joined a "strange bedfellows" coalition drawn together to fight for the reopening of Troy Davis's capital case.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Honduras Crisis Forces Obama to Focus on Latin America

The military coup in Honduras puts pressure on the president to break sharply with past American policies or risk losing remains of Latin America's goodwill.

Tom Hayden

Obama’s False Reform

Congress should step up its investigations of the roots of the financial crisis and slow down the rush to weak solutions--especially the empowerment of the Federal Reserve.

William Greider

Bucking the Banks

How can we expect the experts to reform the financial system when it's experts who got us into this mess to begin with?

Chris Hayes

Noted.

Sebastian Jones on healthcare reform, Nisa Qazi on refugees in Pakistan, John Nichols on NOW's Kim Gandy

The Editors

Obama’s Stonewall

Since Obama traced his dazzling arc to the presidency, his stance on gay rights has become murkier, and more Clintonian.

Richard Kim

Iran’s New Revolutionaries

At the heart of the Green Wave sweeping Iran are the fearless young men and women who have few illusions about the complexity of the reforms they seek.

Babak Sarfaraz

Column

The Root of Madoff’s Evil

Congress should not be fooled by the argument of Wall Street lobbyists that Bernard Madoff was a lone rotten apple now safely discarded.

Robert Scheer

DC Metro Crash Exposes Funding Strikeout

Who will be the next to die because our cities spend money on sports stadiums instead of basic infrastructure?

Dave Zirin

Muslim Women’s Rights, Continued

The massive participation by women in Iran's street demonstrations is surprising only if you accept the mullahs' view of women as weak and passive vessels.

Katha Pollitt