Features
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An Invisible Community
Everyone seems to agree that public housing has no redeeming value -- everyone, that is, but the tenants.
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The New Urban Gamble
Does the Carnival City model--with its casinos, stadiums, and convention centers--promise to revitalize cities? Or is it a misguided use of public investment?
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Controversy: Family Trouble
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Of Our Time: Wayne's World
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Devil in the Details
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The Martian Plan
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Below the Beltway: The China Hawks
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State of the Debate: Dr. Business
A new book by a Harvard Business School professor who wants to reorganize medicine into "focused factories" shows just how scary the medical-industrial complex might become.
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State of the Debate: The Moral Meanings of Work
How should we think about work -- as just a necessary burden that we'd like to cut to a minimum or as the organizing focus of our lives? A number of new books about work, culture, and family suggest that we need to work for more than bread alone.
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Test the Limit
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Essay: Labor and the Intellectuals
Despite reciprocal indifference, labor unions and liberal intellectuals can still enliven one another.
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Behind the Numbers: The End of Unemployment?
A higher percentage of Americans are working than at any time since World War II. But policy-makers could wreck a dawning era of high employment.
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The Speed Limit
It would be nice if the Dodgers returned to Brooklyn and if the economy grew faster than 2.3 percent. But neither of these things is in the offing.
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Why We Can Grow Faster
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Grassroots Medicine
The federal government has agreed to study the medicinal use of marijuana. But there's already lots of evidence that the administration seems to be doing its best to ignore.
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The Neglected Remedy
Scattershot regulation of drive-through deliveries and other abuses isn't the only way to respond to the rise of managed care. There is another option: Giving consumers more of a say.
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The Mythology of Centrism
Pundits have misinterpreted Tony Blair's and Bill Clinton's victories as centrism triumphant. But voters chose leaders committed to stopping Thatcherism and Reaganism and restoring broad prosperity.
