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Meanwhile, Iraq is suffering the latest onslaught of sectarian violence, and claims of chemical weapons in Syria bring to mind the 2003 invasion.
Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.
The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.
Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wandered and Other Stories; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself
How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.
Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.
Jon Cruddas, who’s now leading a comprehensive policy review, says he wants to renew the party’s roots in English radicalism.
A visit to a forlorn sex shop inspires meditation on the diverse meanings of solidarity, mutuality and community.
Korea seen clearly, the poop on the pipeline, a blast of fresh arctic air, Jared Diamond, Anthony Lewis again
Why won't the EPA regulate ammonium nitrate? Barbara Boxer wants to know.
Bank accountability activists continue to send a clear message to the big banks: “You can run, but you can’t hide.”
Search engine executives warn about invasive government surveillance, but the digital arms trade begins with their own technologies.
When will free-traders-gone-wild own up to their complicity in brutal injustices like last week’s deadly factory fire?
Buddhism is marked by concern for the welfare of all “sentient” creatures. But when it is harnessed to ethnic intolerance and extreme nationalism, it can turn violent.
Walking libraries... a God named “Word”.. what Sherlock Holmes never said... read it here!
The interactive La Ruta dramatizes an experience that many immigrants know too well—and senators could learn from.
Are those hunger strikers I hear? Or is it just the wind?
We can no longer say that no active male athlete has ever come out of closet. Meet the NBA’s Jason Collins.
The high school football coach is on board for two more years—despite the jock-turned-rape culture in his locker room.
The feminist author and long-time editor of Ms. magazine died tragically in a biking accident.
The difference between rich and poor is stunting economic growth, the mayoral candidate says.
A new study highlights the vital role high African-American turnout played in 2012. Activists say voters were “outraged and energized” over threats to voting rights. Both parties should take notice.
Last year's farm bill stalled because the GOP proposed deep food stamp cuts—and now they want even more.
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