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• Marathon man: Henry Waxman's climate change bill won't make it into law this year. That's why he's the right guy for the job 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's a drizzly spring evening on Capitol Hill, and an Indiana congressman has placed himself in an unenviable spot:...

  05/01/09 by Charles Homans · More from publication

• Radical Streak: why Leonard Bernstein's politics can't explain his best music 

  Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician by Barry Seldes University of California Press, 269 pp. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

  05/01/09 by Michael O'Donnell · More from publication

• Washington's turnaround artists: think government can't fix the auto industry? Then how did it manage to fix the railroad industry—twice? 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The massive corporate bailouts that Washington is undertaking as a result of the economic crisis have left most of us...

  03/01/09 by Phillip Longman · More from publication

• Straight away: don't ask, don't tell is on its way out, and not a moment too soon 

  Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank Thomas Dunne Books, 368 pp. [ILLUSTRATION...

  03/01/09 by Michael O'Donnell · More from publication

• No return to normal: why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than you think 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Barack Obama's presidency began in hope and goodwill, but its test will be its success or failure on the economics. Did...

  03/01/09 by James K. Galbraith · More from publication

• Transformation 101: technology is driving down the cost of teaching undergraduates. So why are tuition bills going up? 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On August 6, 2008, the Washington Post reported that tuition and fees at public colleges in Virginia will increase by an...

  11/01/08 by Kevin Carey · More from publication

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