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Saturday November 21, 2009
Politics
Capping Wall Street Pay Won't Solve Our Problems--But Breaking Up the Banks Might
The Editors

Health Care
Can’t Get a Flu Shot? Don’t Blame Obama. Okay, Maybe Blame Him a Little.
Marin Cogan

Politics . Environment & Energy
The Final Descent of John McCain
Jonathan Chait

Health Care
Cogan, Cottle, Darby, and Khimm Have a Few Things to Say About the Cervix
Michelle Cottle

Economy
Ronald Reagan: Accidental Champion of the Black Underclass
Zubin Jelveh

World
Who the $@&! Are the New Heads of the European Union?
Amanda Silverman

Environment & Energy
Is Climate Change a National Security Threat?
Bradford Plumer

Health Care
Cohn: Designing One of the Most Crucial Aspects of Health Care Reform
Jonathan Cohn

Books and Arts
Werner Herzog’s ‘Bad Lieutenant’: Making a Schlocky Movie This Good Is Harder Than it Looks
Christopher Orr

Friday November 20, 2009
Politics
A Suggestion for Obama in 2014: End the Drug War
John McWhorter

Metro Policy
Galston: How Can We Start Rebuilding America? Let’s Start With This Program.
William Galston

World
Did We Expect Too Much From Obama’s Trip to Asia?
Michael Crowley

Metro Policy
If You Thought We Had Budget Problems at the Federal and State Level...
Mark Muro

Health Care
The TREATMENT’s Full Coverage of the Senate Health Bill: What Works and What Still Needs Fixing
Jonathan Cohn

Thursday November 19, 2009
Books and Arts
Washington Diarist: Obama Has No ‘Magic’ Overseas
Leon Wieseltier

Economy
Why We Need a Federal Agency That Actually Protects Consumers
Martha Coakley and Elizabeth Warren

Metro Policy
Five Ways the Recession Has Turned Immigration Upside-Down
Jill Wilson and Audrey Singer

Politics
Linker: The Virtue of Shutting up About Sarah Palin
Damon Linker

Politics
Dionne: How Republicans Have Changed the Senate (and How Democrats Have Let Them)
E.J. Dionne Jr.

Health Care
Cottle on Freaking out About Breasts. PLUS: Khimm on Mammogram ‘Rationing.’
Michelle Cottle

Environment & Energy
Why Policies That Help Women Also Help the Environment
Lydia DePillis

Economy
Scheiber: Why Wasn’t Obama More Assertive in China?
Noam Scheiber

Health Care
How Democrats Could Insert a Little Theater Into the Health Care Debate
Jonathan Cohn

Politics
Patashnik: Should Federalism Stop Obama From Seeking the Death Penalty for KSM?
Josh Patashnik

Don't Militarize the Climate Debate

TNR on Football

The Moral Equivalent to Football

Why football reflects the true--not the ideal--nature of the American character.

Goodbye to the Bear

Howell Raines: The football coach who was segregationist George Wallace's alter ego.

Linebacker Labor

Football strikes, capitalism, and American life.

Football Morals

College football is not a game. It is war, and every college its own barbarian state.

Becoming a Pro

At the Eagles' training camp, meritocracy really works.

Accolades for TNR

“An ability to explain complex ideas in plainspoken English ... an evenness of temper ... a sincere liberal but without the temperament of an ideologue. That’s how The New Republic characterized candidate Barack Obama in 2008. The magazine might as well have been describing its own remarkable attributes.”

—The Utne Independent Press, giving The New Republic its award for Best Political Coverage