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John Nichols on the USPS and Saturday delivery, Liliana Segura on Boston hero Carlos Arredondo, James Cersonsky on a celebrity-studded fight against mass incarceration, and Laura Flanders on Tax Loopholes For All.

Boston bombing memorial

We're still searching for the elusive balance between safety and liberty. Maybe, in the response to this attack, America can get it right.

Kharey Wise, the oldest of the Central Park Five, is arraigned in court.

Two movies about a long-gone New York raise questions about the city it has become today.

A sense of common destiny with Africa ebbs and flows in New York's gentrifying black enclave.

He claimed that he's narrowed the achievement gap, but his record indicates otherwise.

The Flatiron Building in 1903, at the end of the last Gilded Age

In the Age of Bloomberg, America’s most iconic big city is also its most unequal.

In a neighborhood immune to gentrification, a different model of revitalization is required.

NYPD Terrorism

After Boston, we must proceed with caution—and respect the rule of law.

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

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

Blogs

A high court’s preliminary ruling indicates there is not rational basis for Governor Jan Brewer’s attempt to deny driver’s licenses for certain immigrants.

May 17, 2013

Today’s actions follow a recent groundswell of student walkouts—and months of organizing.

May 17, 2013

Some things haven’t changed that much since the Jazz Age.

May 17, 2013

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.

May 16, 2013

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

May 16, 2013

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

May 16, 2013

A response to Time Magazine's Joel Stein.

May 16, 2013

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.

May 15, 2013

And the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee agrees. How’s that for bipartisanship?

May 15, 2013

After decades of takedowns, the art is still stoking controversy.

May 14, 2013
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