Editor’s Note
Robber Barons on K Street
by Paul Glastris

Tilting at Windmills
White-collar whitewash … I’ve got mine, Jack …
Not all secretaries are cabinet-level positions …
by Charles Peters

FEATURES . . .

Cover: Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?

Why creeping consolidation is crushing American livelihoods.
by Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman

Uncle Ali

If you liked Hamid Karzai and Pervez Musharraf,
you’ll love our latest ally, Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh.
by Haley Sweetland Edwards

DNA’s Dirty Little Secret

A forensic tool renowned for exonerating the innocent may actually be putting them in prison.
by Michael Bobelian

Asleep at the Seal

Just how bad does a college have to be
to lose accreditation?
by Kevin Carey

Angst on the Aegean

Crises can force even the most dysfunctional governments to change—and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou aims to prove it.
by Bruce Clark

ON POLITICAL BOOKS . . .

Met Expectations

All museums face a choice between the claims of exclusivity and the demands of democracy. New York’s Metropolitan Mueum of Art has always known which side it’s on.
by David Wallace-Wells

Happy Talk

A former Harvard president makes the case for government promotion of happiness.
by Phillip Longman

Just Add People

Joel Kotkin is right that population growth can transform America’s cities and suburbs for the better. He’s wrong to think it’ll happen automatically.
by Ruy Teixeira

Classless Action

What the fall of a notorious plaintiff’s lawyer does and does not say about the profession.
by Michael O’Donnell

Re-education

Conservative education scholar Diane Ravitch returns to her liberal roots.
by Richard D. Kahlenberg