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The crumbling of dictatorships across the Middle East presents the Obama administration with a conundrum: How to nurture the spread of freedom while managing the rise of Islamist fundamentalism? By promoting democracy in some countries while propping up monarchs in others.
Where would Alaska’s most notorious inhabitant—and our national politics—be today if she had run on her collaborative record rather than her divisive persona?
As chancellor of the nation’s largest school system, the author spent eight years battling recalcitrant unions and feckless politicians. American education, he learned, is a senseless system that must be gutted before it can be reformed.
Twenty-three years after a young nurse was murdered in southern California, detectives zeroed in on a most unlikely suspect. A tale of deception, forensic science, and a cold case gone suddenly hot.
Tokyo is more likely, says a scientist whose work on aftershocks may revolutionize quake forecasting.
Uganda’s most infamous journalist makes no apologies.
Gynecologists cash in on an intimate new market
A filmmaker maps Austin’s shifting ethnic landscape.
Chain restaurants embrace the high-end cocktail.
It's a joy in summer, but even more captivating in winter.
Powered by social networking, file sharing, and e-mail, a new cottage industry is bringing niche drugs to market.
Why the man who runs the world's largest mutual fund sold all his Treasury bonds
The secret formula of Animal Planet: it’s all about us.
Often spot-on, sometimes creepy, David Thomson’s masterwork is the most influential book ever written about the movies—and the most infuriating.
The writings of the martyred socialist Rosa Luxemburg give a plaintive view of history’s paths not taken.
The calculating, pseudo-classy Katharine Hepburn; estranged lovers in Rome; and more
Responses and reverberations
Don’t propose on The Today Show, and other advice
