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Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

Will the Nixon Library actually portray Watergate accurately?

The double book-keeping of Christopher Hitchens.

Franklin Roosevelt v. the Supreme Court.

Obama, Petraeus and the cult of COIN in Afghanistan.

Robert Dreyfuss on McChrystal's firing, John Nichols on McCaskill's push for transparency and David Cole on the Supreme Court ruling on material support to terrorist organizations

After May 18's primaries, it's clear: despite all the Tea Party talk, there's as much turbulence among Democrats as Republicans.
 

Bill Halter’s challenge to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln is revving up Razorback progressives, and Halter is now trailing by single digits. Will Tuesday's primary result in a run-off?

Fox News is getting ever more brazen in its refusal to distinguish between journalist and politician—but so is everyone else.

In the Falling Snow suggests that Caryl Phillips's considerable talents have further calcified into a mannered style.