September 30, 2013

This issue of The Weekly Standard examined economic malaise and political dysfunction in contemporary America. Jonathan V. Last's cover story compared the miserable conditions of the 2010s to the 1970s, questioning whether current times were truly worse, while Jay Cost analyzed President Obama's consistently divisive and hyperpartisan rhetoric. The magazine also covered energy policy, education reform under Secretary Arne Duncan, and economic stagnation under the Obama administration.