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Egyptians go to the polls on May 23 and 24. But heightened tension and deepening unease over every aspect of the political process make it hard to predict what will happen next.

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

It took pressure from progressives to get a partly decent mortgage fraud settlement. They can’t take their eyes off the prize now.

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

How can it be that a party with nearly limitless financial resources has such paltry human resources?

The MSM’s addiction to false equivalence continues to distort our political debate.

What US progressives can learn from British efforts to fight inequality.

In three months, an idea and a hashtag became a worldwide movement. Here’s how they did it.

How it came about, what it means, how it works and everything else you need to know about Occupy Wall Street.

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