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US Capitol

Time to stop being cynical about corporate money in politics and start being angry.

USSR flag

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

The Nobel Peace Prize winner opens up on Occupy Wall Street, the United Nations and prospects for serious social reform.

Land parched by drought in China

Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.

Deng Xiaoping (left) and Jimmy Carter at the White House, January 29, 1979

Is Deng Xiaoping’s legacy of modernization without political reform one that no contemporary Chinese official can control?

Barack Obama

The NLRB has proposed a rule change that would make it much easier for workers to organize. No wonder the business lobby is up in arms.

There’s a perfectly obvious path toward that Republican goal of $100 billion in cuts: change our thinking about making war.