The Post-Boom City
Vol.
No.
21
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December 2009
Columns
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Listening to Afghanistan
The U.S. intervention has never been and won't become a force for humanitarianism. -
Obama Year One
Obama was right to take on a wide range of tough problems, and no one should be shocked at the obstacles in his path. -
Machinery of Progress
It's not just about the president. His successes and failures are tests of the progressive infrastructure. -
Human Wrongs
With A Problem from Hell, Samantha Power changed the way we talk about liberalism and human rights.
Culture
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A Museum of One's Own
Can writers' former homes become tourist destinations? The odds are long and the payoff is low. -
Not Everything Has Changed
The women's movement may have changed everything for the American public, but in the home, the revolution has hardly begun. -
A Teachable Collapse
When it comes to understanding Wall Street, we need both narratives that show how it failed and analysis that makes clear there were alternatives.
Departments
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The Health-Care Ultimatum
Some progressives have called health-care reform without a public option worthless. Here's why they're wrong. -
New Year's Resolutions for Improving Political Dialogue
We've become a nation of screamers, not thinkers. Here's how to bring thoughtfulness back in 2010. -
I Love You, Man
Dueling "ex-gay" and gay-rights conferences have more in common than the attendees would like to believe. -
Noted
Responses to Gabriel Arana's "Gay on Trial," Ann Friedman's "The Company We Keep," and a message from Prospect executive editor Mark Schmitt. -
Up Front
2010 headline predictions; The worst tea party ever; Obama's secret reset button; and The Question.
Special Report
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Industrial Policy: The Road Not Taken
In the 1970s, Wall Street and its economists defeated manufacturing. -
Losing Our Future
If we don't develop a national industrial policy for clean-energy production, the strategies of other nations will displace American companies and jobs. -
FDR Had It Right
If the economy is going to come back, we need to buy -- and make -- American. -
Playing Ourselves for Fools
The trading system America sold the world is killing U.S. industry. Here's a better way. -
The Plight of American Manufacturing
Since 2001, the U.S. has lost 42,400 factories -- and its technical edge. -
The Politics of Industrial Renaissance
Business and government may waver, but the American people want more manufacturing. -
The Great Industrial Wall of China
Beijing's mercantilism challenges America's market ideology and industrial future.
Features
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The Ruse of the Creative Class
Cities that shelled out big bucks to learn Richard Florida's prescription for vibrant urbanism are now hearing they may be beyond help. -
The Work Around
How some supervisors of low-wage workers break the rules to make an unfair system a little bit fairer. -
Gentrification Hangover
Can a new era of affordable housing be created from the wreckage of failed luxury real estate? -
On the Books
Could microloans help America's informal entrepreneurs become business owners -- and rescue urban economies in the process?
