Print Magazine

November 30, 2009 Issue

Alexander Cockburn on Obama’s election anniversary, Calvin Trillin on Lieberman’s public option position, Ed Morales on Puerto R…

Cover art by: Cover art by Peter Kuper, design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue

Editorial

Charitable Capitalism

Goldman and the other big dogs of Wall Street are afflicted with the stink of greed, having harvested swollen fortunes from the calamity they caused for the rest of the country.

William Greider

Getting Tough on Exploitation

Vigorously enforcing labor law and stopping the crackdown on the nation's undocumented immigrants can boost the American economy.

Amy Traub

Solution to Unemployment: Pay People to Work Shorter Hours

There is an easy way to get unemployed workers back to work: pay them to work shorter hours.

Dean Baker

Outrageous Fortuño

The combination of a four-year recession, a $3.2 billion deficit and a toxic Republican-style governor has turned Puerto Rico into a political powder keg.

Ed Morales

The Perils of Palinism

With enemies like Sarah Palin, who needs friends?

Richard Kim and Betsy Reed

Noted.

"Tobin Tax" on the table; Palestinian Authority in peril; predictable Islamophobia after the Fort Hood shootings.

The Editors

Healthcare History

The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.

The Editors

Column

Women Ski Jumpers Grounded

A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.

Dave Zirin

Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer

What's up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it.

Robert Scheer

Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up

In Copenhagen, activists won't just say no--they will aggressively advance solutions that reduce emissions and narrow inequity.

Naomi Klein

Whose Team Is It, Anyway?

Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.

Katha Pollitt

A Year of Obama

Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.

Alexander Cockburn

Senator Joe Lieberman and the Public Option

Calvin Trillin

Letters

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Grantsville, Md.

Our Readers

Feature

Green Jobs for Recovery

Clean-energy sectors, which hold the promise of being major engines of job growth, are creating opportunities for those communities hit hardest by the recession: low-income communi...

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

The World’s Women Stuck in the UN’s Blind Spot

"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?

Barbara Crossette

The Palin Effect

Why Sarah Palin can't be stopped from going nuclear inside the Republican Party.

Max Blumenthal

Honduran Crisis Outfoxes US Attempts at Negotiation

A small delegation from the Honduran resistance movement visiting the US last week drew attention to the human rights abuses of the coup government.

Tom Hayden

Financial Crisis Inquiry Kicks into High Gear

Americans want to know what went wrong during last year's economic meltdown. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will find the answers.

Greg Kaufmann

Welcome Home, War!

Will the Afghan and Iraq wars lead to a surveillance state here in the US?

Alfred W. McCoy

Justicia Poetica

The victory over Lou Dobbs demonstrates that the immigrant community is mobilized like never before.

Roberto Lovato

No Country for Yes Men

Notorious political pranksters the Yes Men have made a career out of impersonating henchmen from major companies, including Exxon, Dow Chemical and McDonald's--and getting away wit...

Shakthi Jothianandan