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Guantánamo Bay detention center

That’s the unanimous conclusion of a nonpartisan task force. It should teach us not to overreact to the Boston bombings.

US bomber

The United States has dropped millions of cluster bombs on other countries that continue to kill today.

Faneuil Hall

Whatever happened to quiet bravery and dignity?

ICE detention

As the country charts a new course on immigration, New York remains a beacon of hope.

Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.

Stop Family Violence

America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale—at home.

As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.

A writer navigates the empty streets and boarded-up businesses of his childhood.

A board filled with messages for Audrie Pott

Rehtaeh Parsons, Audrie Pott: these are victims of sexual violence who didn't survive.

Blogs

On responses to "Kabuki Democracy," TNR and the mail.

August 13, 2010

Gay rights advocates will worry about Justice Kennedy's vote, and Democratic strategists will fret about collateral damage in November--but in the grand scheme of things, the battle for gay marriage is over.

August 12, 2010

On Charlie Rangel, the world's worst songs and right-wing hypocrisy.

August 12, 2010

The attorneys general in Florida and Virginia who are attacking America's uninsured ought to think about who really benefits from the politicization of well-being.

August 12, 2010

As we've been rehashing the Constitution lately, maybe it bears reminding that we learned years ago that separate's not equal.

August 11, 2010

Obama's half-hour speech in the University of Texas gym, where 4,000 youthful supporters came to see him, sketched a vague strategy for higher education.

August 11, 2010

If we are to produce not only our best work, but also our best lives, we need to think hard about developing a different attitude toward time.

August 11, 2010
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