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His experience as a student activist at Hamilton College cemented his desire to pursue a career in public interest law.

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How can anyone possessed of the faintest sense of social justice not thrill to the Occupy Wall Street movement now spreading throughout the country?

The Origins of Political Order, a work of total world history, pits the old Fukuyama against the new.

Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole's Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards of history can transform our worlds.

This puzzle originally appeared in the January 31, 1976, issue.

In this fall's South Carolina Senate contest, Democrats should vote for the Green Party candidate.

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.