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Lots of ground to cover and some very interesting stories from the world of deep politics, spooks, hacks, blunders, and the Asian Game of Zones. First up, from the New York Times, ignorance of history or simply slippery politics?: A President Whose...

The “food movement” is a broad term for a political, social, and economic revolution. But it has no one leader, no single belief system, no agreed-upon primary goal. Instead, it’s a diverse, far-flung community united only by the conviction that the...

by MARIANNA JORDAN for ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 4, 2013: Jessica Montell, the executive director of Israel’s leading human rights organization B’Tselem has a “love/hate” relationship with the Arab-Israeli peace process. She...

East Residence Hall at Duke University, recently renamed from Aycock Hall after a student campaign protesting the building’s namesake, former North Carolina Governor Charles Aycock, a noted white supremacist. (Duke University Photography) Charles Aycock...

By Prashanth Kamalakanthan Long a stoner joke, the movement to legalize marijuana is now riding high. Voters have backed legal pot in four states and the District of Columbia. Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada are expected to vote...