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After the first presidential debate, the media follow-up focused almost exclusively on its theatrics and the implications for the “horse race.”

Taking away one of America’s most economically efficient and widely used educational and cultural resources is a bad deal for the American people.

How right-wing Jewish organizatons misrepresent both the views and the influence of American Jews.

As Mitt Romney’s campaign descends into increasingly indefensible terrain, a few right-wing stalwarts are still standing by their man.

A manufactured controversy aimed at Elizabeth Warren shows the damaging ways we exploit trivial kerfuffles and pass them off as political stories.

Afflicted by the elite journalistic disease of “on-the-one-handism,” the MSM’s supposed arbiters of truth—like the Post’s Glenn Kessler—can't make sense of this presidential contest.

The courageous Chinese dissident has always had an eye for the point where art and politics meet in performance.

Sweden’s refusal to provide assurance that it would not extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States was an important motivating factor.

Right-wingers turn to talk radio to stoke their anger. What will they make of the kinder, softer voice of staunch conservatism?

The Wikileaks founder has been in Ecuador’s London embassy for six weeks awaiting a decision on his request for asylum.