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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... by Michelle Cottle Why Policies That Help Women Also Help the Environment by Lydia DePillis Why Wasn’t Obama More Assertive in China by Noam Scheiber How Democrats Could Insert a Little Theater Into the Health Care Debate by Jonathan Cohn Should Federalism Stop Obama From Seeking the Death Penalty for KSM? by Josh Patashnik As always, be sure to check out economic news on The...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... Is Good Politics by Noam Scheiber A Culture War Standoff Becomes Something of a Love-Fest by Lydia DePillis America’s Economic “Doom Loop.” Yes, “Doom Loop.” by Simon Johnson Are We Overpaying Potential Taliban Recruits to Keep Them From Breaking Bad? by Noam Scheiber Would Weaker Targets Mean a Cheaper Climate Bill? by Bradford Plumer Another ‘Going...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... Important Federal Agency Is Being Run by People Who Have Overstayed Their Term by Three Years? by Lydia DePillis Scheiber: Why Banks Should Be Worried About the Upcoming Regulation Debate , by Noam Scheiber If I Lived in Maine and Were a Republican, I Would SO Run Against Olympia Snowe , by Christopher Orr Why the U.S. Census Is Going to Have an Even More Difficult Time Counting Americans...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Learned the Lessons of the Berlin Wall? by Marty Peretz Live From Hillary Clinton's Homecourt , by Lydia DePillis Why I Don't Think Government Should Create a Jobs Program , by Zubin Jelveh 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...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Climate Bill? by Bradford Plumer An Extra Peek Inside Obama's Lackluster Army of Activists by Lydia Depillis 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...
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Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Writing for the New Republic, Lydia DePillis investigates the Obama operation's post-campaign organizing might , now institutionalized in the Organizing for America branch of the Democratic National Committee. Why, asks DePillis, has Obama's much-praised distributed network of supporters not done more to counter the many "tea party" events and health care townhall protests...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
How Did Obama’s Unprecedented Grassroots Operation Fall Quiet So Quickly? by Lydia DePillis In Defense of Shrinkage: The Problem with Obama’s Plan to Fix Our Banking System by Noam Scheiber Are Our Options in Afghanistan as Limited as They Seem? A Debate on the Way Forward by Andrew J. Bacevich and Michael A. Cohen A Pre-Election Day Memo To Both Democrats and Republicans...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The ‘Civilian Surge’ Myth: Stop Pretending That the U.S. Can Actually Nation-Build , by Steven Metz A Geek Grows in Brooklyn: Jonathan Lethem and the Disappearing Line Between High and Low Art , by William Deresiewicz From Supreme Allied Commander to … Ethanol Lobbyist? The Strange Journey of Wesley Clark. by Lydia DePillis Scheiber: Was Wall Street Safer in the Hands...