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The titans of finance have lined up behind Mitt Romney against his GOP rivals and President Obama. But what exactly would a Romney presidency offer them?

It’s insane that an affair—and not his cockamamie ideas—finished Cain.

A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos Williams.

Miguel Facussé, a biofuels magnate entangled with the drug trade, is waging a bloody war against campesinos—with American support.

The body of the church of Scientology is not well. Will its main legacy be its contribution to US tax law?

A conversation with some of the top figures in American philanthropy reveals a shared belief in the power of institutional giving to benefit the most vulnerable among us.

Community partnerships are seen as a softer counterterrorism. But who are the partners?

At the Iowa straw poll, Michele Bachmann—and Ron Paul—offered up the tough talk on the deficit, and on religion, that voters wanted.

Far from winning votes, “Muslim-bashing” alienates large swaths of the electorate—even as it hardens an already hard core on the right.

The fight to counter LePage’s extremism is gaining support not only among progressives in the state but within the Republican Party too.