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DIED Harvey Shapiro, 88, poet and author; as a New York Times editor, he suggested that Martin Luther King Jr. write what became "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."...
Chris Christie’s Race to the Bottom
In honor of his keynote speech Tuesday night, I thought I’d recount a revealing story about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from my new book, The New New...
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama
TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It reveals some of my...
Morning Must Reads: Still
The U.S. added just 115,000 jobs in April, but BLS revises two prior months up. Unemployment dips to 8.1% thanks to a contracting labor force, now at its lowest...
No Joy in Greece Over the E.U.'s New Deal
The parade on Friday was supposed to commemorate Greece's resistance during World War II. Seventy-one years ago on this day, Greece refused to let Italy's...
Now WordPress Will Allow You to Profit from Your Posts
Just a couple of days after Chime.in launched with the promise of allowing users to monetize their own social media, WordPress bloggers are about to get the same...
The CW Signs Potential Billion-Dollar Netflix Streaming Deal
If you've recently realized that your guilty television pleasures run to shows such as Supernatural, Nikita and The Vampire Diaries, then congratulations: You're...
Amazon 'Prime' Members Get Free Streaming CBS Shows
As Netflix's price rise continues to cause grumbling amongst subscribers, is Amazon about to try and become the new hub for Video on Demand content? The online...
An Enduring New Deal.
10,000 Approximate miles of highway constructed by the WPA from 1935 to '37 INFRASTRUCTURE THE NEW DEAL An array of projects and programs, including the...
A New Deal
Japan's lost decade is stretching into decades. It has been almost 20 years since the bursting of a mammoth property and stock bubble plunged the country into...
The U.S. Economy: Time for a Real Jobs Stimulus?
If the recession is over, as some economists say, why are so many people still unemployed? The so-called jobless recovery is raising an intriguing question:...
FDR's Lessons For Obama
Alas for countless pundits and inspirational speakers, it is apparently not the case that the Chinese word for crisis is spelled by joining the characters for...
The First 100 Days
March 4, 1933, was perhaps the Great Depression's darkest hour. The stock market had plunged 85% from its high in 1929, and nearly one-fourth of the workforce...
The Bad New Deal
President Barack Obama faces a daunting political reality: the world he envisioned in the spring and summer of 2008, when he was formulating his political...
The Trouble with Obama's New Deal
President Barack Obama faces a daunting political reality: the world he envisioned in the spring and summer of 2008, when he was formulating his political...
A New Deal? Not Yet
The photo on the cover of your Nov. 24 issue is an O-bomination! Can we please wait to see how well the new President does before we canonize him? Joseph...
A New Deal for China?
China announced a huge economic stimulus package on Sunday, pledging to spend some 4 trillion renminbi — about $586 billion — on a wide range of moves designed...
Beijing's Helping Hand
Last month, President Hu Jintao and China's cabinet formally unveiled an ambitious plan to build a New Socialist Countryside. Here are some of the goals of this...
Indonesia's New Deal
Democracy, for all its imperfections, at least offers society's less fortunate the hope that their lives might one day change for the better. This is a perk that...
