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Obama realizes that transformative presidents look past day-to-day disasters.

A lawsuit offers a peek into the world of high-end D.C. salons.

TAP talks to a former police chief who thinks drugs should be legal about new efforts to ban a pot substitute.

Meet the man who makes sure bloggers are ready for their close-up.

The college abstinence-only movement sells itself as empowering and pro-woman. Too bad the usual rejection of marriage equality and reproductive rights still applies.

In the quest for bike-friendly cities, are snobby cyclists their own worst enemies?

We’ve become a nation of screamers, not thinkers. Here’s how to bring thoughtfulness back in 2010.

Some progressives have called health-care reform without a public option worthless. Here’s why they’re wrong.

Dueling “ex-gay” and gay-rights conferences have more in common than the attendees would like to believe.

We all define ourselves by our enemies — but it can be taken too far.