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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?

One year later, the blockbuster Game Change can be read as much for how little election narratives explain about history as for the story of the 2008 campaign.

Bob King, the new UAW president, has dusted off the union and renewed its activist traditions.

Why a progressive presidency is impossible, for now.

Eyal Press on the passing of Tony Judt; Ari Berman on the movement against Citizens United

He'll probably fend off J.D. Hayworth, but in order to win he's lost most of his principles.

Two new collections of the poems of Jorge Luis Borges.

Ken Salazar is one of the strongest advocates of offshore drilling in Washington. Will his Interior Department really enforce the moratorium on new drilling permits?

Obama’s rudderless foreign policy underscores America’s waning power.

An appeals court ruling that foreigners held at Bagram can't challenge their detention gives the military an easy way to avoid legal review: send all detainees to Afghanistan, no matter where they're captured.