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The real cause of the current gridlock is the majority's desire to avoid difficult votes.

The U.S. Treasury wants to greenlight charities' investments in commercial start-ups.

Many Argentines fear the checks and balances restraining presidential power are gone.

Egypt isn't ready to fairly try its former president.

Unemployment was supposed to be 5.7% now.

With a third slowdown in three years, maybe the problem is the policies.

The guiltiest party: campaign-finance law.

New York's Mayor gets a sugar afflatus.

How the son of a beggar became a democrat, a Christian and a guide to the recently escaped dissident Chen Guangcheng.

He may go down as one of the city's greatest mayors if he can tame its violent spirits.

Former Alabama Congressman Artur Davis on why he has left the Democratic Party.

Shouldn't supposedly selfish conservatives—not idealistic liberals—be producing nasty mobs?

Nobody thought about taking away your Big Gulp until the government began to pay for everyone's health care.

Walter Russell Mead on what bank runs—and maybe the end of the euro zone—look like in the digital age.

How did "indie" music become "alternative" and back to indie again? Through the story of band Yo La Tengo, Jesse Jarnow charts the rise of an enduring genre.

Historian Peter Frankopan on evocative portraits of religious destinations, from Jerusalem to Lhasa in Tibet, and of those who have journeyed to reach them.

A new biography of James Joyce argues that he was an intensely autobiographical novelist—and a genius whose talents came at the cost of poverty and ill health.

"The Blood of Heroes" argues that the sacrifice of the defenders of the Alamo inspired Texans to fight for their freedom. Terry Eastland reviews.

By Allysia Finley Voters have always viewed the president as likeable, but going negative on Mitt Romney seems to be making voters go negative on him.

By Allysia Finley Voters have always viewed the president as likeable, but going negative on Mitt Romney seems to be making voters go negative on him.