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The uprising in Egypt is a rare opportunity to support democracy without imperialism. Will Obama take the chance?

Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

Two new histories examine contemporary liberalism's entrails and peer into its future.

To change the country, to make our voices heard and, most of all, to declare that we are all in this together.

Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'

How conservatives have turned a sense of exclusion into a powerful philosophy of self-styled truancy.

After eight years of misgovernment, Americans must join together to restore our democracy, the rule of law, and our nation's moral standing on history's high road.

Two new books take a closer look at the "Soviet monster" in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.

Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.

Two new histories of British imperial rule in India take the narrow
view. In fact, the scandal of empire can be isolated neither to Europe
nor to the past.