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Why do patriotic members of an elite combat unit refuse to serve in the occupied territories?

Why early twentieth-century Americans—from anarchists to Baptist ministers—fell for the philosophy of Nietzsche.

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

At the utopian community of Fruitlands, vegetables were not only eaten. They were also imitated.

A big deficit-reduction program would destroy the economy two years into the Great Crisis.

In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.

The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse government as the provider of public services.

Newspapers may be dinosaurs in the age of new media, but they have enough life to guide--and even define--our politics.

Bush, war and juvenile executions.

How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.