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The veteran LGBT activist is fighting for an Assembly seat in California, but she faces tough opposition from a current representative who moved into her district and who is backed by Speaker John Perez.

Is the whole world nostalgic for the snobbery of the British class system?

Capes, torches, secret meetings! Adam Goodheart’s 1861 tells the story of the unyielding idealism awakened by the Civil War.

Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.

The politics of the Templeton Foundation's "Big Questions."

As the UC Berkeley Student Senate votes to divest from two companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestine, the noted philosopher reminds us of what's at stake.

Americans exercise their good sense by not caring much about the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

Percy Harrison Fawcett went to the Amazon looking for paradise. He never returned.

During the 1932 presidential campaign when there seemed to be little separating the Republicans from the Democrats, Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas found a new audience for the party's progressive platform.

"WHATEVER the other fellow don't do, we will." Thus refreshingly Will Rogers, the bunkless candidate for President, begins his campaign. It is, of course, a dangerous doctrine, but Mr.