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Affordable health care is important, but right now making a living is more urgent.

Title IX, with all its limits, was a nudge that set off a chain of social transformations.

To a kid imbued with the idealism of “reform,” Dahl’s was a bracingly sanguine view of machine politics.

The Obama administration is pressuring suburbs to end segregated housing but ignoring their history of segregated schools.

The Democratic health-reform proposals are built around ideas Republicans used to favor.

Obama decided that if everything Carter and Clinton did turned out wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

A party of professionals and young voters risks becoming a party that overlooks the core economic crisis facing American workers.

A second stimulus could help states avoid layoffs, program cuts, and tax hikes.

The president remains popular even as many of his supporters become uneasy about what he’s actually doing.

As Sotomayor’s nomination has made evident, accusations of racism often obscure much deeper and more pressing questions about how our differences matter and how they should not.