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January/February 2009 Issue
January/February 2009 Cover
Michael Hirschorn on how The New York Times could survive; Mark Bowden considers the hardest job in football; Ta-Nehisi Coates profiles Michelle Obama; Hua-Hsu on post-white America; James Parker on Battlestar Gallactica; Wayne Curtis on the return of the classic cocktail; and much more. View Magazine
  • The End of White America?
    Hua Hsu
  • White America Reacts
    Laura Brunts
  • American Girl
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Race Over?
    Marc Ambinder
  • The African in Him
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
  • Then and Now
    Timothy Lavin
Culture

The Mood Swings of a Patriot

By Carin Goldberg
January/February 2009 Issue
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