From McKinsey's What Matters, what is the single most important step the U.S. should take to create more jobs? A symposium, including contributions from Bill Clinton, Richard Florida, Jody Lewen, and Matthew Yglesias, among others. Which generation got hurt the most by the recession? The young can't get jobs, the middle-aged are in deep debt, and seniors can't retire. Conflicting Dreams: Josh Eidelson on the strikes that made Boeing a national flashpoint. The attack on unions: Abby Scher on right-wing politics and democratic possibilities. A review of Narcissist Nation: Reflections of a Blue-State Conservative by George Marlin. A review of Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise by Carol M. Swain.Ken Cuccinelli, the Attorney General of Virginia, on reasserting federalism in defense of liberty. From Jesus Radicals, what it mean for our political imagination if we were to think that we are, to some genuine degree, living under totalitarianism? A review of Sheldon S. Wolin's Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Jason Plautz on the Oregon county that’s not in the UN. What drives conspiracy theorizing in the United States? A review of Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground by Jonathan Kay. Jesse Kornbluth reviews Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and discusses the nature of all fanatical mass movements. Is democracy as we know it on its way out? A decade ago, only paranoid alarmists would have posed that question — today, it may be an expression of cold, brutal realism. How the political right bullied the Department of Homeland Security into ignoring the threat of right-wing extremism. Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? Doom: Our economic nightmare is just beginning. Matt Stoller on how America could collapse. Look on the bright side, America: Downgrading your global ambitions could make you a healthier and happier nation.
