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Perpetuating the idea that the government can’t do its job is but a half-step away from excusing the government when it fails us.

Corporate whistleblowers get the silent treatment from Washington.

Can the work of Merce Cunningham survive his death and the closing of his dance company?

Jenny Martinez and Kathryn Sikkink offer conflicting histories of the ascendency of international courts.

In The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides can’t explain what happens to his characters without throwing in every last why.

The building of the transcontinental railroads is not the story of a managerial revolution, argues Richard White, but of incompetence and corruption rewarded.

Sara Mayeux on Gordon Liu, Molly O'Toole on mass incarceration, and kudos for Joshua Kors

Bill McKibben is right: we no longer live on the “cozy, taken-for-granted” planet formerly known as Earth.  We inhabit a new place, already changed dramatically by the intervention of humankind.

Timothy Garton Ash is a fine writer of "analytic reportage," but his work has lately displayed symptoms of columnitis.

With attack ads battling it out on airwaves across the country, Chris Hayes asks Stanford professor Shanto Iyengar: do negative ads ever have positive effects?