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The White House Must Now Address FEC Reform

The White House Must Now Address FEC Reform

A petition calling for Obama to install new FEC members has obtained the requisite 25,000 signatures for an official White House response.

Posted February 9, 2012

The Komen Turnaround Was a Defensive Victory

The Komen Turnaround Was a Defensive Victory

Forcing the Komen reversal was huge—but it was a campaign born of outrage, not ambitious vision.

Posted February 8, 2012

A Brief History of Drones

A Brief History of Drones

With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

Posted February 7, 2012

Books and the Arts

Margaret Sanger’s legacy continues to haunt debates about abortion and family planning.

For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”

Zoe Strauss has turned the streets of Philadelphia into a museum for her photography.

News and Analysis

Bribes from billionaires? Super PACs buying campaigns right and left? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos.

Sheldon Adelson

How can it be that the “richest Jew in the world” can buy the foreign policy of a major party’s presidential contender and “the Jews” have somehow escaped the blame?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Obama’s abandonment of patient diplomacy—combined with Israel’s bellicose demands—has pushed us dangerously close to conflict.

Arizona protest

The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.

A soldier in Israel

Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?

In the slow motion destruction of Susan G. Komen, VP Karen Handel may be the only one who got what she really wanted.

In a volatile era, OWS’s participatory democracy makes more sense than top-down government.

An Occupy protester in Chicago

The Occupy movement has been a seedbed of creativity. Now it needs to declare its values.

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