Alexandra Gutierrez

In what is basically a Sick, Sad World report, Jen DiMascio writes in Politico: Defense contractors developing the Army’s largest modernization program — the Future Combat System — also were paid $91 million in 2007 to report back to the Pentagon on how well the program was performing, according to a new inspector general report, […]

Jackson Lears reviews two books on Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits and Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression: In contemporary American public life, the mere mention of poverty is considered bad form. Consider some recent attempts to bring up the subject. In 2003, the University of North […]

Robert Kuttner on Sen. Maria Cantwell‘s approach to financial regulation: In the showdown over the regulation of potentially toxic securities like credit-default swaps, the savviest and toughest battler for effective legislation turns out to be not Barney Frank or Chris Dodd, who chair the key House and Senate financial committees. Surprisingly, the best informed and […]

With the unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists, and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the New Deal 2.0 […]

With the unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the New Deal 2.0 […]

Paul Starr says voters need to see immediate progress on jobs and health reform: The continuing rise in the unemployment rate, up to 10.2 percent in November, has to give a sense of urgency to Democrats in Congress and the administration about the work they have at hand before next fall’s elections. In 2010 Republicans […]

With the unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the New Deal 2.0 […]

With the unemployment rate the highest it’s been in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the New Deal 2.0 […]

Sady Doyle on the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world’s most popular vampire-romance series: When New Moon, the second film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer‘s four-part Twilight series, opens in theaters this month, those who see it will not be getting great art. The faults of Meyer’s immensely popular teen vampire-romance novels have been endlessly, […]

Today, Obama leaves Asia having made no headway on the issue of North Korean denuclearization. In Japan, China, and South Korea, the president reaffirmed each country’s commitment to bring North Korea back to the Six-Party Talks. But it’s not clear how much good that would do: Pyongyang remains as unpredictable as ever. For the past […]