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After Boston, we must proceed with caution—and respect the rule of law.

Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.

An elite nonprofit no one’s ever heard of has turned New York into a city of tall towers and tony boulevards.

As images of wealth abound, the struggles of ordinary workers have become invisible.

What used to be called "shell shock" is now the daily stress of living in a war zone.

Rinku Sen on the Associated Press's decision to "drop the 'i' word," Robert Dreyfuss on Hagel's bad budget rhetoric, and the editors on a prize for Nation illustrator Steven Brodner.

From the All in the Red Collective in New York to the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition in California, young activists are on the march.

Daniel Villegas was 16 when he confessed to a double murder en El Paso. But almost 20 years later, he insists he's innocent, and the evidence backs him up.

Afflicted with a mental disorder, Carrie Mathison is an unlikely American hero, and seems a bad bet besides.