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He’s blocked the neocons as well as the “humanitarian hawks,” but his new strategy does push cold war with China, drones and cyberwarfare.

If big-city mayors can strategize about the alleged problems of Occupy protesters, why can’t they get together to reform Wall Street?

Sorry, President Obama, but there is a dimension of fear properly associated with the word nuclear that is not matched by any oil spill.

In defense of the editor of the Huffington Post. Not that the lady needs one, having been a leader in undermining the right-wing dominance of Internet reporting for over five years.

It’s not only bad politics for states to use budget crises to bust unions—it’s also bad ­economics.

The legendary organizer speaks on the “story of the self” and where Obama went wrong.

Abusing drug abuse.

The continuous readjustment of expectations downward: For historians like Jefferson Cowie and Judith Stein, that was the key experience of the 1970s.

Senator Lindsey Graham is the latest to join the assault on birthright citizenship, announcing that he may introduce a constitutional amendment banning automatic citizenship to the children of immigrants who "come here to drop a child." But his argument rests on a total fallacy.

Newspaper books sections have been ailing for decades, but there's no better time than now for writing about books.