A new issue of Plus Magazine: Living Mathematics is out. When art and math collide: An exhibit of mathematical art reveals the aesthetic side of math. Of the Algorithms, by the Algorithms, for the Algorithms: Can a bunch of mathematicians make government more representative? From Rolling Stone, Paul Krugman on what Obama must do (and a review of The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008). Pat Kane on Obama Notions: Between the Puritan and the booty-bumper. The Obama administration marks the beginning of the end of the war in Iraq, but it's less clear what it means for the larger "war on terror". Peter Beinart on the solvency doctrine: "The world deals the cards, and a President plays them as best he can". A review of The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its

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