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Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law puts the threshold for self-defense so low that major questions in this case will likely go unanswered.

A new history of Europe’s postwar world and its displaced persons.

Sabotage and threats have damaged and delayed this year’s mission, but so far the activists are winning the media war.

Remembering a 1950s radical who developed his values, critical thinking and world view in a time when non-conforming was rare.

If President Saleh falls, the US will have lost a pliant partner in its “global war on terror.”

Female Engagement Teams join the counterinsurgency.

Ruth Harris's Dreyfus; Deborah Amos's Eclipse of the Sunnis.

With scores of coastal residents out of work after the spill, BP is hiring inmates to clean up its mess—and getting lucrative tax breaks in the process.

Louisiana can't go cold turkey: it can only wean itself off oil through an orderly transition.

What Sebastian Junger and Restrepo won't tell you about war.