David Von Drehle is an editor-at-large for TIME, where he has covered politics, breaking news and the Supreme Court since 2007. He is the author of four books, including Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year, published in 2012, and Triangle: The Fire That Changed America.
Stimulus Stalls in Kansas City
A ‘Green Impact Zone’ has prepared poor and working class residents for the promise of electrics cars. But it doesn’t seem to have done much to generate the jobs they need to pay for new law-carbon buggies