Brian D. Galle (BC) and Kirk J. Stark (UCLA): Beyond Bailouts: Federal Supports for State Rainy Day Funds. From Rolling Stone, Tim Dickinson on how the GOP became the party of the rich: The inside story of how the Republicans abandoned the poor and the middle class to pursue their relentless agenda of tax cuts for the wealthiest one percent. Aliens in Antarctica: How can you tell if a species is a native or an invader? Borrow, borrow, and borrow some more: The Republican and Democrats both have dumb plans to fund the payroll tax cut — this is what they should do instead. In Memoriam: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Maharishi Arianna: Atop AOL, hiring and borrowing freely from the old media, a new age news guru is building her grandest temple yet. Should writers be sexier than you? Yes, they should, says Karan Mahajan, to reclaim their place as fabulous cultural heroes. Lindsay Marshall on reading history, Bede’s History. From Stir, the prejudice against Prometheus: It’s worth reflecting on whether the attitudes learnt over the past few decades retain within them the resources for effective opposition. Does inequality matter? An excerpt from Robert H. Frank’s The Darwin Economy. From First of the Month, Eugene Goodheart on the president and his base. Rebooting the Republic: Tea Partiers and Rootstrikers call for a constitutional convention. A review of A Cultural History of Sexuality, Volume 1: A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World.
