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• Out of service: after three decades of government outsourcing, the Obama administration vows to get tough on contractors. But is the civil service too far gone? 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ONE EVENING last October, just a few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president, more than 1,000 people crowded into...

  09/01/09 by Tim Shorrock · More from publication

• End of the line: GM guaranteed the people of Janesville, Wisconsin, a good wage for a hard job. Those were the days 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DRIVING THROUGH JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, IN A DOWNPOUR, looking past the wipers and through windows fogged up with cigarette...

  09/01/09 by Charlie LeDuff · More from publication

• Enter stage right: GOP pit bull Darrell Issa is modeling himself after the dems' fiercest watchdog, Henry Waxman. Obama beware 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's just after ten on a December morning on Capitol Hill, and Darrell Issa is doing the unthinkable: praising Henry...

  09/01/09 by Nick Baumann · More from publication

• 42 hours, $500, 65 breakdowns: my lost weekend with the trademark happy, bathroom-break hating, slightly spooky inheritors of est 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AFTER NEARLY 40 HOURS inside the basement of Landmark Education's world headquarters, I have not...

  07/01/09 by Laura McClure · More from publication

• Credit is due 

  In Jonathan Torgovnik's May/June photo essay on Rwandan women, we failed to name his project's book, Intended Consequences, published by the...

  07/01/09 · More from publication

• Children of the corn 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If the specter of obesity and diabetes wasn't enough to turn you off high-fructose corn syrup...

  07/01/09 by Melinda Wenner · More from publication

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