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President-elect Obama inherits the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: the financial sector is in ruins; the budget is hemorrhaging red ink; debt-ridden households have clamped down on spending, thereby pulling the rug out from under the economy; unemployment is soaring; the country is in two wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Bigger Government | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

Then there's also the fact that, like most military officers, Blair is a believer in tactical intelligence. Let me explain why that's problematic: During the last Gulf war, the Pentagon badgered the CIA for things like sand samples and stress limits of Iraq bridges, the terrain its Abrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Dennis Blair, Don't Expect Smarter Intelligence | 12/20/2008 | See Source »

The other person suddenly not taking risks is Obama. He hired old, experienced staffers--one of whom is so old, he was, impossibly, the Fed chairman before Alan Greenspan. It is possible that he's vetting people from Lincoln's Cabinet. Obama's economic scheme isn't to buy up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Stupidly | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

Yes, concrete. Not the cheap, gray, easily cracked soulless stuff that gave urbanization a bad name when it was slathered over Western cities in the 1960s, but newfangled, bright--and still relatively expensive--concrete that has come on to the market this decade. High-performance concrete (or ultra-high-performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cementing the Future | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Relying on crisis to mobilize us is a luxury we have never been able to afford. Infrastructure decays slowly, and yet roads erode, bridges collapse, and levees fail. Some problems have existed so long that we forget there is any alternative until the Europeans figure it out first: universal health...

Author: By Elise X. Liu | Title: The Sky is Falling | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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