The Editors
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Heavy Vetting How Obama undercut his call to service.
TRB From Washington
Jonathan Chait
Stock Answer No, Obama didn't destroy your 401(k).
Walter Shapiro
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Forget the GOP; Obama's enemy is the angry public.
Bradford Plumer
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Biz school sees its stock plummet.
Suzy Khimm
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Orrin Hatch, health care reform's stealth champion.
Jagdish Bhagwati
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Union-loving free traders unite!
Yoni Brenner
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The lesser-known think tanks of Washington.
Jonathan Cohn
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Stayin' Alive
The inside story of health care reform's near-death experience.
Noam Scheiber
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Free Larry Summers
Why the White House needs to unshackle its economic oracle.
Alan Wolfe
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Obama vs. Marx Hint: One of them's not a socialist.
Stanley Kauffmann
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FILMS Changes Jan Troell's loveliness and grit; Twelve Angry Men in Moscow.
Jed Perl
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ART Complicated Bliss The modernist pastoral of Pierre Bonnard.
Enrique Krauze
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ESSAY The Shah of Venezuela Who exactly is Hugo Chavez, and what does he mean for the political culture of Latin America? A close look at the unexpected intellectual origins of Venezuela's socialist caudillo, and an explanation of why we must take this buffoon seriously.
Ruth Franklin
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BOOKS Night and Cog
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell, translated by Charlotte Mandell
Lia Purpura
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POEM Art
David Thomson
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BOOKS Wishin' and Mopin' Dusty!: Queen of the Postmods
by Annie J. Randall
Dan Pagis
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POEM Ararat, translated by Leon Wieseltier
David A. Bell
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BOOKS Becoming France Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
WASHINGTON DIARIST
Leon Wieseltier
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In Which We Engage
Cover illustration by Roberto Parada
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