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A Mexican intellectual takes the measure of liberalism and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America.

Unemployment dropped to 8.6 percent, while the economy added 120,000 new jobs. Is this good enough news?

In Mañana Forever? Jorge Castañeda chronicles the growth of the middle class to argue that Mexico is not a failed state.

Should the program target hunger and obesity by promoting consumption of fruits and veggies?

Jennifer Homans thinks ballet is dying, its masters dead and gone. But ballet, which exists in time and leaves no record, is always dying.

Abusing drug abuse.

With Marty Peretz, the problem is not a single racist statement, it's a lifetime of them.

Literary taste-making can't be the one place in America where gendered expectations play no role.

Newspaper books sections have been ailing for decades, but there's no better time than now for writing about books.