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Local and state governments are gaining the ability to restore basic services and infrastructure.
The man renowned as an anti-tax ideologue is actually a typical K Street operator.
Long waits and too few providers are consigning more and more women to illegal abortions.
The US military’s “Pacific Pivot” is raising tensions with China and prompting local resistance.
Here are just a few things the Foreign Relations Committee should be asking Obama’s nominee for secretary of state.
Democrats introduced a gun control bill on the first day of the new Congress. But can they overcome the NRA?
John Nichols on our unelected senators, Robert Dreyfuss on the Newtowns in Afghanistan, Natasja Sheriff on suicides in Tibet, Preston L. Schiller on Jane Holtz Kay
Republicans have been blocking Obama's nominations—but the president’s refusal to fight back is part of the problem.
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
How the neoliberal urban development schemes of the Mubarak regime have gained new life under the Muslim Brotherhood.
Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?
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