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Editor's Note
Pushing Past Reform Fatigue
by Paul Glastris
Tilting at Windmills
Psst! Got any Motrin? …Wall Street's rinse and repeat … Obama's obsession…
by Charles Peters
Ten Miles Square
Mama Bear
How Sarah Palin has inspired an army of Republican women to run for office.
By Malcolm Gay
Cover . . .
 Dirty Medicine
How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive.
by Mariah Blake
Features . . .
 Show Him the Money
Tom Donohue scares millions of dollars out of corporations and Republicans. But is his U.S. Chamber of Commerce good for business?
by James Verini
 The Shipping News
Start moving freight by water again, and we’ll use less oil, emit
less carbon, cut highway traffic—and perhaps even save St. Louis.
by Phillip Longman
 The Agnostic Cartographer
How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the
company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes.
by John Gravois
Special Report:
Introduction
Obama takes aim at education’s most neglected problem.
Can he make headway?
by Richard Lee Colvin
New York City
Big gains in the Big Apple.
by Sarah Garland
Philadelphia
After decades of effort, a decade of progress.
by Dale Mezzacappa
Portland, Oregon
All the advantages, and nothing to show for it.
by Betsy Hammond
Small is Still Beautiful
Breaking up big, dysfunctional high schools into smaller units looked like a reform that failed. Look again.
by Thomas Toch
Standards Issue
President Obama wants to lower the dropout rate. He also wants to raise academic standards. But does one come at the expense of the other?
by Thomas Toch
This special report was made possible with
the generous support of (in alphabetical order)
The Boston Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Spencer Foundation
William Penn Foundation
On Political Books . . .
 Climate of Opinion
Blogger Joe Romm drives the global
warming debate in Washington. But has
he left the rest of the country behind?
by Bill McKibben
 Vague at the Hague
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic was
manipulated, protracted,
unsatisfying—and absolutely necessary.
by Wesley Clark
 Timorous Invasion
When the UN stopped a genocide in East Timor
in 1999, liberals hoped it would be a watershed moment for the cause of humanitarian interventionism. It was, instead, the movement’s high-water mark.
by Joshua Kurlantzick
  French Connection
What the Dreyfus affair does— and doesn’t—tell us about Guantánamo.
by Michael O’Donnell
 Crass Menagerie
The inside skinny on the modern American zoo.
by Doron Taussig
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