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With the invention of drones, we crossed into a new frontier: killing that’s risk-free, remote, and detached from human cues.

Montana's superintendent of public instruction, a groundbreaking Native American leader, is a strong believer in the power of public education to combat poverty.

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

Life support for our economy is nowhere close to arriving. One lost decade may have ended, but the next one has likely only begun.

Measurements of economic growth fail to capture many facets of well-being.

In Griftopia Matt Taibbi argues that America has been corrupted by the merger of crime and policy, of stealing and government.

The most striking American tragedy of these last nine years—far worse than the tragedy of 9/11 itself—is just how weak we have been in the wake of war.

The CIA and me and other adventures in American sports.

How the Pentagon is cheating wounded vets.

This issue marks the debut of Melissa Harris-Lacewell's column, "Sister Citizen."