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A monthly political journal of liberal though. Contains articles that generate debate, further ideas, and set agendas; and provides a forum for working through the controversies and hard choices facing all Americans. Includes regular topics and features.

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Revolution amid recession.(PROSPECTS)(broadband democracy)
May 1, 2009... UNTIL RECENTLY, THE OPTIMISTIC ASSUMPTIONS OF an era of prosperity dominated ideas about the information revolution. Although many observers recognized that new technology would bring "creative destruction"--making old industries obsolete, while opening up new ones--the emphasis has been on...

The xxx-files: lobbying for the porn industry in a time of economic crisis.(Up Front)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE ALL KNOW home values and decimated 401(k)s are among the effects of the recession. But what about depleted sex drives? "People are too depressed to be sexually active," Hustler publisher Larry Flynt said in a January statement asking Congress for a $5 billion...

The question: what else should the federal government nationalize?(Up Front)
May 1, 2009... "lf they want a return to the taxpayer? The marijuana trade."--Eric Rauchway, U.C. Davis [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Iceland, which will be used as refrigerated storage space and harvested for avant-garde pop musicians." --Reihan Salam, The Atlantic "The Republican National...

Expert advice.(WAYS AND MEANS)(political vision)
May 1, 2009... ON JUNE 11, 1962, JOHN F. KENNEDY DELIVERED the commencement address at Yale. After some Harvard-Yale jocularity, he put forward the most memorable definition of that triumphal moment in what historians now call the era of liberal consensus: "What is at stake in our economic decisions today...

It's time to rethink the problem.(Five Ways of Looking at Risk: Everything Americans thought they knew about risk was wrong. Now what? To restore real prosperity, we'll need to get smarter about what we don't know)
May 1, 2009... How did it happen? How did the sub-prime mortgage crisis cascade into the Wall Street meltdown and then the worst recession since the 1930s? One answer crops up over and over: It was the math. According to Wired magazine, a single equation, the Gaussian Copula Function, brought down the...

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