The Man the Banks Fear Most
Up Front
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Mad Money
With right-wing fears rising over the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, Republican state legislators want to create their own currencies.
Departments
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The New Wave
Politicians going after birth control had no idea what they were in for.
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Three Roads from the Supreme Court
None of the options for health-care reform is ideal, but the most likely path forward would be through action in the states.
Features
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The Death and Life of Detroit
Neighborhood groups are bringing the blighted city back, one block at a time. Will City Hall stand in their way?
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Don't Blame "Corporate Personhood"
Citizens United decimated what remained of campaign-finance reform, but the damage has been long in the making.
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The Man the Banks Fear Most
Wall Street's gone largely unpunished for its role in wrecking the economy—until New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman came along.
Culture
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The Case of the Vanishing Middle Class
Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence deftly explores the roots and resurgence of American inequality.
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Vive la Mère
Is breastfeeding the new patriarchy? Elisabeth Badinter overstates her case—and overlooks what the French can really teach us about raising children.
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Dreams from My President
Three and a half years after his election, Barack Obama remains a mystery to many Americans.
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Charles Murray, the Long View
In 1984, the right's star public intellectual wrote the book that drove welfare reform. Coming Apart is an alibi for his own failed big idea.
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Part Two: Charles Murray, the Long View
Coming Apart caps three decades of faux concern for the poor.
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Power Failure
Two new books on why nations gain and lose wealth and power miss the real story.
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Rebuilding the World
Anthony Shadid's final book on the remaking of a house in Lebanon
Special Report
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Still Ain't Satisfied: The Limits of Equality
The LGBT-rights movement should fight for economic and social justice—not simply de jure civil rights.
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My So-Called Ex-Gay Life
A deep look at the fringe movement that just lost its only shred of scientific support.
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Exporting the Anti-Gay Movement
How sexual minorities in Africa became collateral damage in the U.S. culture wars
