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Mother Natures: On Elisabeth Badinter
Mother Natures: On Elisabeth Badinter
In The Conflict, the French intellectual takes American mothering to task.
It's Time to Break Up the Big Banks
It's Time to Break Up the Big Banks
When will Congress and the White House wake up to the fact that big banks are still playing with bombs?
The Criminalization of Rape Victims
The Criminalization of Rape Victims
There’s a growing trend of criminalizing rape survivors in order to guarantee their testimonies at trial.
Too Often, a New Baby Brings Big Debt
Too Often, a New Baby Brings Big Debt
Few new mothers get paid maternity leave. Those who take unpaid leave often go deep into debt to make ends meet.
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Books and the Arts
For Mary Dudziak, we are now experiencing a time of permanent war, one that does not bother everyday Americans.
Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?
The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”
News and Analysis
Egyptians go to the polls on May 23 and 24. But heightened tension and deepening unease over every aspect of the political process make it hard to predict what will happen next.
JP Morgan’s CEO once complained that traders would need to see psychiatrists in order to comply with financial regulations. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea.
As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.
The largest IPO in history serves us lessons in what it means to love your country.
The state’s top number-cruncher discusses taxes, education and the consequences of drowning government in the bathtub.
Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could a Supreme Court ruling on juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?
The math doesn’t add up. It shouldn't cost Obama votes—and it won’t.
The dramatic opening of the 9/11 trial shined a light on all the ways in which a commission is not a federal court.
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