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January 12, 2009
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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A Couple in Chicago
- On May 26, 1996, Mariana Cook visited Barack and Michelle Obama in Hyde Park as part of a photography project on couples in America. What follows is from her interviews with them. MICHELLE OBAMA:...
January 19, 2009
Brave New World
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Hack Attack
- Talk story about hackers bringing down SoapBlox, which administers more than a hundred liberal blogs…
January 19, 2009
Comment
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Transitioning
- Comment about events in Washington leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama…
January 9, 2009
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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Al Qaeda Squares Off With Obama
- Pity Al Qaeda as it tries to recover from the bursting of the great Bush bubble. Their greatest asset was the polarizing figure of George W. Bush and the almost automatic loathing he elicited throughout...
January 9, 2009
Blog: Think Tank
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Carbon Taxes vs. Cap-and-Trade
- Rex W. Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil Corp., delivered a speech in Washington yesterday endorsing a carbon tax of about twenty dollars per ton as a better way to address global warming...
January 09, 2009
AUDIO
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The Transition Podcast: January 9, 2009
- Dorothy Wickenden talks to Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, Jane Mayer, and John Cassidy about Obama’s economic plan and his strategy to counter domestic terrorism.
January 8, 2009
Blog: Think Tank
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A Most Dangerous Place
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies has published a new report, “FATA—A Most Dangerous Place,” about the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Its principal author is Shuja Nawaz, the author of a richly...
January 8, 2009
Blog: Goings On
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Gift Economy
- You may not know the name Shepard Fairey, but odds are good that you know his work. The L.A.-based artist is a populist whose designs tend to be mass-produced and often installed in the street....
January 8, 2009
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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Memorials for Myself: Roland Burris Edition
- The tombstone of Roland Burris, age seventy-one, carries the Illinois state seal and is etched with the words “Trail Blazer,” along with a list of positions held (first African-American Illinois attorney general and state comptroller)...
January 6, 2009
Blog: The Balance Sheet
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Libertarians Against the Market
- Tyler Cowen, in his ongoing effort to ensure that the government spends as little as possible in its attempt to stimulate the economy, cites approvingly a post by Arnold Kling arguing against a big fiscal-stimulus...
