August 5, 2013

This issue of The Weekly Standard focused on the mounting problems with the Obama administration and its signature policies. The cover story highlighted concerns about an impending economic and policy disaster, while contributing editor George Gilder offered notes toward a new economic framework. The magazine covered multiple fronts of criticism: David Skeel examined Detroit's bankruptcy and lessons it offered, Stephen F. Hayes profiled Mike Lee's opposition to Obamacare, Michael Astrue warned of a coming health-exchange privacy scandal, and other contributors addressed Obama's constitutional failures, the prospects for immigration reform, and Democratic vulnerabilities on late-term abortion. The issue reflected conservative concerns about government overreach and economic mismanagement in 2013.