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Riot police take their position on the grounds of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, on Friday, November 28, 2008. An article written in July 19, 2008, after the …

As a teenager in northern New York, Gary Durham ran cross-country and hiked the Adirondack’s high peaks. In Army basic training, he did two-mile runs in under 13 minutes. …

Justice Clarence Thomas is an ethics problem in a black robe. Just eight months after ThinkProgress broke the story of Thomas’ attendance at a Koch-sponsored political fundraiser, we learn …

In the seven weeks since the killing of Osama bin Laden, pundits and experts of many stripes have concluded that his death represents a marker of genuine significance in …

If some predator were stalking fourth graders in your community, there'd be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools. …

After the intense debate and media attention in the first weeks after the European Parliament's cash-for-amendments scandal broke, it has become very quiet in the last weeks. Discussions about transparency and …

President Obama is expected to announcewithin a week if and how many combat troops he plans to withdraw from the war in Afghanistan. Some of those who will be …

Milton Friedman in 1977. Friedman’s view was that the natural rate of unemployment is “the level that would be ground out by the Walrasian system of general equilibrium equations, …

Inmates in a mental observation unit on Rikers Island in Ocotber 2004. (Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times) On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug …

Protesters demonstrating in Oakland, November 5, 2010, against Grant's killing. (Photo: Thomas Hawk) Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant …