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Murder in Washington: Part of a frightening pattern?
feature With the murder of Stephen Tyrone Johns, a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Department of Homeland Security's warning about right-wing extremists now seems prescient.
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The health-care debate: Sound, fury—signifying … what?
feature Democrats knew that it would be tough to sell President Obama’s proposals to reform the health-care system to their constituents, but the frenzied town hall–style meetings are something else altogether.
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Health-care reform: Where Obama went wrong
feature President Obama’s grand plan to remake the entire health-care system has bogged down in Congress, and his August deadline for passage is dead.
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Investigating torture: Should CIA agents take the blame?
feature Attorney General Eric Holder announced an investigation into whether 10 CIA agents went beyond Bush administration guidelines for “harsh interrogation;” White House officials will not be scrutinized.
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The space program: Is Mars the next logical step?
feature Mars may have trapped frozen water and traces of primitive life forms. Should we be satisfied with unmanned probes or rise to the challenge of sending up astronauts?
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The economy: Is the recovery for real?
feature The Great Recession is officially over. Where's the champagne?
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The auto industry: Does Detroit deserve a bailout?
feature Congress heard the desperate pleas of GM’s Rick Wagoner and other industry chiefs who say that without a $25 billion loan, their companies could collapse.
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The banking crisis: Is nationalization the only way out?
feature Secretary Timothy Geithner plans to pump $1.5 trillion into failing banks, yet experts say that major U.S. banks already have $2 trillion in bad debt, and future losses in the financial system might raise the amount to as much as $7 trillion.<
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Bush’s legacy: How will history judge him?
feature Will Bush, like Harry Truman, be appreciated in hindsight, or will he be forever judged as one of the nation's most unpopular presidents?
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Iraq: Is Obama really ending the war?
feature Obama unveiled a timetable under which all “combat units” would leave Iraq by August 2010; the plan also allows for the continued presence of up to 50,000 “support troops” until December 2011.
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Obama: The second coming of Jimmy Carter?
feature President Obama’s poll numbers are down, his agenda is stalled, and there is backbiting and finger-pointing between his acolytes and the more pragmatic members of his administration.
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Health care: The return of ‘death panels’
feature Last week President Obama authorized new Medicare rules that include paying for end-of-life consultations between doctors and patients—if the patient wants to have that talk.
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Guns: Would tougher laws have prevented a massacre?
feature Since Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were gunned down in 1968, more than a million Americans have died of gunshots, in crimes, accidents, and suicides.
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Iraq
feature A new argument for staying the course.
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