The Editors
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Once More, With Feeling!
Putting the care back in health care reform.
TRB From Washington
Jonathan Chait
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Mind the Gap
What the right wing really thinks about inequality.
Howard Jacobson
7
The haunting of Gordon Brown.
Suzy Khimm
9
When a Ben Nelson prank gets out of hand.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells
10
Learning the wrong lessons from David Halberstam.
Jonathan Cohn
11
The HMO is back. Shhh!
Noam Scheiber
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Tim Geithner's Wall Street consigliere.
Andrew Rice
16
Doubt
A professor, a genocide, and NBC's quest for a prime-time hit.
Michael Crowley
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The Decider
Who runs U.S. foreign policy?
Stanley Kauffmann
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FILMS
Being Human
Nanni Moretti's understated grief; modern-day gamboling.
Jed Perl
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ART
Generations For an anthropologist of the American art scene, younger-than- Jesus New York this spring was a melancholy revelation.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
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POEM
Split
Jerry A. Coyne
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BOOKS
Creationism For Liberals
The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright
Tom Sleigh
40
POEM
In Another Sector
Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
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BOOKS
Outcomes, Outcomes
The Constitution in 2020
edited by Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel
Washington Diarist
Leon Wieseltier
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Leszek
Cover photo illustration by Anastasia Vasilakis
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