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Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373.

Nothing is simple in the poems of James Schuyler, not even the formal austerity of looking out a window.

In The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes lucidly charts how the Romantics were as transfixed by the failures of science as they were by its bright accomplishments.

The effort to keep fuel flowing for the American military has led to questionable alliances in Kyrgyzstan and allegations of corruption entangling the US government.

A rock bottom, a bottom line, a body in extremis all make the poems of Graham Foust quaver and reel.

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

Uninsured Americans have arguably the highest stake in the outcome of the healthcare debate--so why are they absent from the national conversation over its fate?

How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?

Two Blackwater contractors died in a December 30 suicide bombing at a CIA station in Afghanistan, suggesting that the company is more enmeshed in CIA business than the agency admits.

Despite the seeming specificity of the president's West Point speech on the Afghan War--30,000 new troops at a cost of $30 billion--Americans got little sense of just how big and how expensive this surge is likely to be.