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Judging by his advisers, Romney would embrace Bush’s unilateral interventionism and massive military budgets.

Bernard Rapoport's death at the age of ninety-four has brought to a close one of the storied chapters in the history of American liberalism.

The brouhaha over Hilary Rosen’s comments was not really about whether what stay-home mothers do is work.

In Sanford, the movement for justice for Trayvon Martin has been led almost exclusively by African Americans. Why are white progressives on the sidelines?

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

How the politics of the super-rich became American politics.

El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.

The dole, relief, welfare, safety net…; spying on Eleanor Roosevelt; pipeline whack-a-mole

That Friedman’s self-serving feints at the truth still earn him a place of high journalistic regard is a sad commentary on the profession.

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.