The Talk of the Town

ILLUSTRATION: TOM BACHTELL
COMMENT: Homelands, by David Remnick
The Bush era is ending, and the Obama era is opening, with yet another conflagration in the most intractable, faith-dazed, and history-inflamed spot on earth.…

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Family Jewels

by Lizzie Widdicombe
Buying jewelry from Madoff’s victims.

ELIZA DOOLITTLE DEPT.

Correcting Caroline

by Ben McGrath
Polishing Caroline Kennedy.

BUREAUCRACY DEPT.

Tweed Wars

by Justin Vogt
A historians’ scuffle at the State Department.
ILLUSTRATION: MARC ROSENTHAL
THE FINANCIAL PAGE: Cheat, Pray, Love, by James Surowiecki
On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times get tough. So while bank robbers are getting busier, the Bernard Madoffs are starting to get caught.…
BLOG: THE BALANCE SHEET

COMMENT

Adam Gopnik: You might as well spend.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: How to fill a Senate seat.

COMMENT

George Packer: The lessons of Mumbai.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: Letting Detroit fail.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The marrying kind.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: Bush rewrites the rules.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: An unprecedented victory.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: What makes a President great?

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: Wealth-spreaders unite.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: Not-so-regular Joe.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: McCain’s negativity theory.

COMMENT

The Editors: The better candidate for 2008.

COMMENT

John Cassidy: The politics of the bailout.

COMMENT

John Cassidy: The meltdown and the election.

COMMENT

Steve Coll: Palin in the news.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: The word from St. Paul.

COMMENT

David Remnick: Obama’s big night.

COMMENT

Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.

COMMENT

David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.

COMMENT

Elizabeth Kolbert: McCain and the hard truth.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The newspaper industry’s uncertain future.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Obama’s economic team.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: On how we created the food crisis.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: On the data surplus.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Why the market couldn’t check its fall.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The commercial paper chase.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The perils of being a publicly traded bank.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The politics of pay discrimination.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: Too many stakeholders can be a deal-breaker.

THE FINANCIAL PAGE

James Surowiecki: The real problem with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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01 11, 2009
A discussion of Obama’s economic and counter-terrorism plans.
BLOGS
George Packer hopes Obama will help resettle 40,000 Iraqi refugees.
Steve Coll considers a carbon tax.
James Surowiecki says most American companies borrowed responsibly.
Sasha Frere-Jones can’t get enough of the Buddha Machine.
Hendrik Hertzberg sees Chicago’s chance to redeem itself.
The Book Bench: Upton Sinclair mojitos, Bolaño’s title, taxidermy and photography.
Goings On: Oscar advice, Rothkos, quality time with Prince.
The Cartoon Lounge: Psychic New Year’s, digging up a time capsule, no Inauguration in 2009.
Ask the Author: Alex Ross answers readers’ questions about Leonard Bernstein.
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Joy Revision: Ariel Levy discusses the relevance of “The Joy of Sex.”
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Home for the Holidays: Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan’s “Christmas Eve.”
The Transition: A discussion on Obama’s economic and counter-terrorism plans.
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Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
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Deserted: A portfolio of images from Sudanese refugee camps in Chad.
Sexual Evolution: A portfolio of images from “The Joy of Sex” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
The Face of Death: Paintings and drawings from the Marlene Dumas retrospective at MOMA.
Secrets of the Bomb: Images and documents that tell the story behind the first atomic bomb.

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