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The protests in Wisconsin have inspired a new generation of candidates—and they’re winning.

Randall Kennedy is fascinated by a paradox: the color line's persistence and its seeming implosion.

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

Electoral racism may be dead, but is there a more subtle form of racism at work in the white flight from Obama?

 In Obama's Afghanistan speech, signs of the Great American Unraveling. 

President Obama is on the verge of deciding how many troops to pull out of Afghanistan starting this July—and whether he'll pull them all out by December. His second term rests on his getting the US out of the war.

It's time to banish our dangerously-simplified us-versus-them mentality and recognize the world as it is: shot through with suffering and complexity.

How can the US protect Libyans without arousing popular—and well-founded—suspicions of neoimperialism?

No-fly zones have, at best, a mixed record as a form of humanitarian intervention, and instituting one over Libya will do little to halt Qaddafi’s military advantages.

When Obama can't convince American conservatives of verifiable facts, what hope does he have of convincing them to support his policies?