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The flag of Golden Dawn: ‘We want all illegal foreigners out of our country, we want the usurers of the troika and the IMF out for ever.’ Photograph: Reuters You can hear it from blocks away: the…

December 14, 1995 4:55 PM ET Mick Jagger on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' Peter Lindbergh Being interviewed is one of Mick Jagger's least favorite pastimes, a necessity that accompanies his career. A…

The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home in Baltimore with every passing year. She attends city-run nutrition…

Today is the second day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health-care-reform law. Over at Daily Comment,…

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Reuters Last week, Texas officialsrefused to halt the execution of Duane Edward Buck even though his1997 capital murder trial was concededly taintedbyunconstitutional racial testimony from an…

Only when I reached Suq al-Juma, Tripoli’s sprawling eastern suburb of 400,000, three days after the rebels entered the city on August 21, did I feel I was somewhere free of Muammar Qaddafi’s yoke. In contrast to the deserted, shuttered streets elsewhere in the capital, the alleyways behind its manned barricades were a hive of activity. Children played outside until after midnight. Women drove cars. The mosques broadcast takbir, the celebratory chants reserved for Eid, the end of Ramadan, that God is Great, greater even than the colonel. Replacing absent Egyptian laborers, volunteers harvested tomatoes and figs in the garden allotments.