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A new history of the party is too close to its subject, and misses the human drama.

In her printmaking the artist searched for a constantly elusive vision.

Why does Benn Steil’s history of Bretton Woods distort the ideas of Harry Dexter White?

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News and Analysis

The Senate passed a bill that cuts benefits for low-income Americans and will cost over 56,000 jobs. 

disarmament sculpture

A new campaign against robotic weapons systems is challenging society’s latest threat to peace.

Crosses marking immigrants' deaths

Many progressives have accepted increased border security as a necessary tradeoff for getting a bill passed. The terms of this compromise will be paid in blood.

Obama

The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.

Nuclear transportation

A conversation about a new documentary, its provocative claims—and the facts it leaves out.

Mark Boal

How did a journalist whose career was devoted to exposing injustice end up writing a film like Zero Dark Thirty?

Computer user

What is the NSA doing with your metadata?

Arctic tern

In praise of darkness (and light).

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