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The fate of the EU hangs in the balance.

As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.

Joachim Gauck could offer too striking a contrast to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own devotion to a politics of small compromises. 

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

The Occupy movement takes on neoliberal education reform and the Bloomberg Department of Education.

The strange thing about last week’s Brussels compact is that it is irrelevant to the task at hand—avoiding collapse of the euro.

The US bombing of a Pakistani border outpost, US drone attacks and Pakistani support for the Taliban—all threaten to destroy the chances for a peaceful US-NATO exit from Afghanistan.

Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.

Too many Americans have fallen prey to narratives that erase the role of slavery in the war’s origins and legacy.

Academics flocked to a Paris conference in Tony Judt’s memory—but solutions to the growing anti-government absolutism he warned of were scarce.