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State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was deeply involved in the Jewish Defense League, which the FBI listed as a “violent extremist Jewish organization.” Other officials should be questioning him, not the college.

The Islamic Republic has survived for so long because its basic model is, according to numerous surveys, what a majority of Iranians actually want. 

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Post-legal drones, the bin Laden Tax and other wonder of our American world.

Port Said is a city in full rebellion against the unreformed security forces of the young nation.

How the United States military has become a global police force for the superrich and superpowerful.

The sad truth is that disarming and defeating Silvio Berlusconi remains the country’s first priority.

Today's confirmation hearings are the last best chance to debate the truth about a lost war and America's war-making future.

Leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is pressing a smart campaign to end austerity. But it may be too late—the oligarchs and neo-Nazis are sharpening their knives.

Clashes across the country have put the legitimacy of the Morsi government in question.