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Felix Salmon Isn't Buying What Al Gore Is Selling
The new issue (subscribe!) has my article on Generation Investment Management, the London-based financial firm Al Gore…
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A Story I Hope You'll Read: Al Gore’s Role as the Green Warren Buffett
Two weeks ago, I mentioned that I was interviewing Al Gore about a decade-long project he had undertaken that…
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The Obscure-Seeming ExIm Bank Furore Is a Window Into the Heart of Today's Politics
Thanks to our new threaded-notes feature, you should see all previous installments in this series below. The purpose of this…
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The Complex Facts, and the Intense Feelings, Behind the ExIm Dispute
If you’re joining us late, there turns out to be an impressively passionate range of views on the future of…
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The ExIm Struggle: Another Thing to Blame the Boomers For?
Here’s the background: No. 1 is “Idiocracy: It’s Not Just a Movie Any More,” an initial broadside against…
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When Is It Fair to Call a Policy Position Idiotic?
Last night I wrote an impolite item arguing something I actually believe: that the Tea Party-led effort to defund the…
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A Map That Shows China's Worst Problem, and One That Shows America's
As I have mentioned over the years, most recently here, environmental sustainability in all its forms is China’s toughest…
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Religious Weekend Special: Return of the Atlas Shrugged Guy
The man who said he'd close his business and fire his employees if Obama was re-elected ... is back!
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All photos: Deborah and James Fallows The Eagles Come to Allentown, and So Does 'American Futures'
Tomorrow is the first day in an old city's new life—or so the city leaders hope and believe.
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Calisphere California High-Speed Rail No. 11: Thinking in Time
Everybody talks about the future, but nobody does anything about it.
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UC Davis and Esri California High-Speed Rail No. 3: Let's Hear From the Chairman
It's time for broader national attention to the most expensive and ambitious infrastructure proposal in America today.
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Now That Mississippi Is in the News
Can the media avoid a freak-show tone?
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The Endless Civil War Goes On
Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, grapple once more with the question of "what's the worst we will put up with?"
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Farm Security Administration, 1941 The Endless Civil War, Continued
"Should the people in Mississippi stay poor? I would suggest taking a serious look at the answer 'yes'." So says a reader who lives elsewhere.
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Thursday Late-Night Reader: Eight Ways of Thinking About China
Can China hope to become ... the next Mexico?
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All-American Detroit
'Not only can I not help but love Detroit - I can't help but believe in that city too.'
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Detroit's Distress, and the 'Curious Unevenness' of American Blessings'
Indelibly American.
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An Interesting Year-End 'Charitable' Possibility
A private solution to public failures? A new group offers an innovative approach.
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Asian Development Bank Meets the Smiley Curve
Where does that iPhone come from? The answer is harder to tell, and more important, than you might think.
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Peter Orszag: The Shoe That Didn't Drop
If a scandal happens in Washington and no one notices, is it really a scandal? And other political koans.
