Today at TNR (December 11, 2009)

• Will Wall Street Destroy Progress on Climate Change, Too? by Bradford Plumer
• How Well Does Our Embattled President Grasp Just War Theory? by Michael Walzer
• How Did Emperor Hirohito Feel When the A-Bomb Fell? PLUS: A Hair-Raising Documentary About Lightning. by Stanley Kaufmann
• The Best Speech of Obama’s Presidency, by William Galston
• Why Give Money to States if No One Is There to Spend It? by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley
• Since Dubai Was Such a Good Idea, They’re Putting up a Couple More of Them in Central Asia, by Seyward Darby
• If the Senate Passes a Health Care Bill, Will the House Want to Rewrite it? by Jonathan Cohn
• Tigergate Isn’t a Black Thing--Despite What Some Would Prefer, by John McWhorter

As always, be sure to check out economic news on The Stash, environment and energy coverage on The Vine, the latest on health care at The Treatment, metro policy debate on The Avenue, and Marty Peretz's The Spine. Also be sure to take a look at TNR's new blogs by William Galston, Simon Johnson, Ed Kilgore, Damon Linker, and John McWhorter.