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Right now, Senator Tom Coburn is advancing a change to the rules regarding background checks that would undermine much of the bill's intent.

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.

After two decades of Republican rule, will New York finally elect a progressive to City Hall?

Nicolas Maduro

Despite a surprising showing by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, Chavismo lives on. But can Nicolás Maduro hold it together?

They are more vital now than ever, when the Obama administration has invoked the Espionage Act more than all other presidents combined.

An elite nonprofit no one’s ever heard of has turned New York into a city of tall towers and tony boulevards.

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

How a city that once celebrated seamstresses and stevedores came to admire "big swinging dicks."

Changes in language and poison pill amendments could throw gun control off the tracks. 

Students have repeatedly appealed to the dean of the Law School and John Sexton for Strauss to be removed, but to no avail.

With 20,000 runners from 96 countries in tow, it's hard to avoid the global implications of this year's Boston Marathon.

Iraq

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

Rehab is hard, painful, miserable work. But those runners, I suspect, will run again.

A school-closing hearing in Chicago becomes a test of whether corporate-driven school "reform" can be responsive and humane.

Amid speculation about the bombing, a great city and its people are responding to tragedy with a strength that is the stuff of poetry.

Today's bombing will change the Boston Marathon forever—that, in and of itself, is a tragedy.

Civilians in an air-raid shelter, Minorca, December 1938, photography, politics

Is it possible to create an intellectually aware, politically honest image?

Pennsylvania Station, photographed by Cervin Robinson in 1962, architecture

How an architecture critic made New York City her touchstone for discussions of public space.

The New Museum tries to explain why the city's art scene changed in 1993.

This week, Newark walks out, Arizona kneecaps its students and UNC rape survivors create a national underground network. And more!

Obama proposes making bad benefit cuts slightly less bad. 

On Tax Day, let's consider a right-wing Zombie Idea that won't die despite even being debunked in National Review: that "tax cuts pay for themselves."

Twenty-seven-year-old Claudia Muñoz checked into a Michigan facility—to fight for the release of those being unfairly held.