How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
Increasing depression, dissolving marriages, collapsing expectations: why the Great Recession will cut deeper— and endure longer—than you think
March 2010
In This Issue
Don Peck on the long shadow of the recession, James Fallows on Chinese hackers, Joshua Green on the Grateful Dead's management secrets, Bruce Falconer on assisted suicide, Liz Phair on greening NASCAR, and more
Features
Cyber Warriors
The biggest threat we face from China—and other rivals—isn’t a military one. Inside the battle to protect our online infrastructure from hackers, spammers, spies, and corporate thieves.
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead
Why business professors, ethnomusicologists, sociologists, and (of all things) management theorists are suddenly taking the Grateful Dead very seriously
Death Becomes Him
Ludwig Minelli has helped more than 1,000 people kill themselves and turned Zurich into the world capital of “suicide tourism.†He says he’s securing a basic human right. Others claim he’s a monster—and a crook.
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Ahmad Masood/REUTERS Kabul Makeover
Reality-TV shows like Afghan Model are rewiring Afghan culture—for better and for worse.
Robert Adamo Sex-Offender City
Florida’s sex criminals are crowding into a handful of neighborhoods.
Alison London/Corbis The Boys from Brazil
Why American rodeos are taking on a Latin flair
Ben Gibson Exile in Greenville
What happens when a NASCAR race and an environmental conference converge
Kayt Sukel Chet of Arabia
In defense of exotic travel with young children
Stephen Savage Pac Rat
The fight to preserve old video games from bit rot, obsolescence, and cultural oblivion
Books
Keystone/Eyedea/Everett Collection The Prince of Paramount
A Hollywood legend’s vivid and honest portrait of the studio era
Liza Corbett Monster of Marriage
Henry de Montherlant’s work displays the charms of a black-hearted misogynist.
Brett Ryder The Men Who Made England
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a service to the history it depicts, and puts the author in the very first rank of historical novelists.
Columns
Myth Diagnosis
Everyone knows that people without health insurance are more likely to die. But are they?
Jacob Hekter Prison Porn
MSNBC’s Lockup documentary series, about life behind bars, is exploitative and debasing, and as poignant a show as can be found on TV.
Eli Meir Kaplan The Great Grocery Smackdown
Will Walmart, not Whole Foods, save the small farm and make America healthy?
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