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Issue date: 07.15.09

Cover Story
Who Lincoln Was by Sean Wilentz
And was not: the images and illusions of this momentous bicentennial year.
Editorial
Make the Ask by The Editors
The Mall
The Third Obama by Michelle Cottle
What does Valerie Jarrett do?
Diagnosis: Inertia by Jonathan Cohn
Obama's sop to health care 'fraidy cats.
Uncommon Ground by Jason Zengerle
Boston yuppies versus Mayor Mumbles.
Feature
The Bystander by Nader Mousavizadeh
Obama grapples with the revolution.
Dawn of the Revolt by Hooman Majd
My travels with Mousavi.
Persian Puzzlement by Eli Lake
What our spies don't know.
The New Democrats by Abbas Milani
An intellectual history of the Green Wave.
The World is Bumpy by Joshua Kurlantzick
Deglobalization and its dangers.
Trb From Washington
Thought Rationing by Jonathan Chait
Republican health care spendaholics gone wild.
Stanley Kauffmann On Films
Selves by Stanley Kauffmann
Books
Brothers by Sally Van Doren
Lists--III by Sandra Kohler
Diarist
Washington Diarist by Leon Wieseltier
The Long Arc