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February 16, 2009 Issue

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Editorial

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?

Chris 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

The Editors

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.

The Editors

Let the Sun Shine In

The era of secrecy in government is officially over.

Jon Wiener

Column

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

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Letter

...We All Scream for Howard Dean!
Kamuela, Hawaii

Our Readers and Anatol Lieven

Feature

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 and 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...

Teddy Cruz