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An adopted child

I’d like to believe my sons’ best life is in my home, and not with their first families. But Christians committed to justice need to remember we are not entitled to other people’s children.

Coming on the heels of the DOJ's seizure of AP records, proposed legislation to keep reporters from being forced to reveal their sources seems would actually roll back protections in some states.

Myriad genetic testing

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s well-intentioned exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.

Green Mountain is the fifth college in the nation and the second in Vermont to commit to fossil fuel divestment.

The GOP proposes steep reductions to the federal food stamp program—and that might blow up the entire farm bill. 

The name of one Chicago business-turned-cooperative reflects burgeoning possibilities for the American labor movement.

Avoiding calling racism for what it is only prolongs the problem. 

A man, a plan, a canal: palindrome!

For fashion brands, participation in the Bangladesh fire and safety plan is voluntarily. It shouldn’t be.

Seven Days in May: Each scandal on its own might have fizzled; together, their fumes are intoxicating liberals, too. 

money in politics

In this banana republic, billionaires don't need to go to the Cayman Islands to park their savings.

New York's Attorney General has issued subpoenas to a fast food company and is investigating several franchisees for what employees say is a rampant issue.

We may have strong critiques of the current commander-in-chief, but let’s not forget that Richard Nixon was the president who perpetrated Watergate and a secret war in Cambodia.

How do you travel from a tax-exempt “non-political” Tea Party rally to a political one? You walk across a park.

The Justice Department’s intrusion is just part of a larger trend that includes Obama’s crackdown on whistleblowers and indefinite detention of suspects without a trial.

Photo of Napoleon Chagnon

One anthropologist’s place in his field’s ongoing battle over questions of power, means and ends.

Renata Adler, April 1975, Patmos, Greece, photograph by Richard Avedon

The slowly panic-making power of Renata Adler’s novels Speedboat and Pitch Dark.

Photo of Rabindranath Tagore, circa 1917

Why a passionate history of global alternatives to liberal capitalism becomes an exercise in nostalgia.

The neoconservative leading the fight over the legacy of Vatican II in the American Church.

photo of Frank Bidart

In Metaphysical Dog, a poet continues his unending, obsessive arguments with himself.

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