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I knew some of those graduates, and through them I was linked to an even more distant American past.

A financial transaction tax and a more efficient fight against tax evasion could channel additional funds into national treasuries.

Surveying our relationship with food, "The Omnivorous Mind" explores why crispness appeals to palates around the world, and where our food cravings come from. Leo Coleman reviews.

The feds impose tariffs that raise costs for U.S. solar power.

What unions really want is legal standing to sue employers and prevent any changes—in wages, hours or other conditions of employment—unwanted by their members.

A Facebook founder and America's 'content-free outrage' machine.

Not even a busted state fisc can stop Jerry Brown's train to nowhere.

Historian Lord Acton on power and moral judgment, 1887—including the coinage that "absolute power corrupts absolutely."

The 1965 Voting Rights Act has been a huge success. So why are black activists keen to press the discrimination button on issues like voter ID?

The Homestead Act, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this weekend, offered free land to men and women willing to farm it. The law helped America become an economic superpower.

Why this social democracy has a liberalizing labor market and strong growth. The answer isn't that it's outside the euro zone.

Once-promising Mongolia takes an authoritarian turn.

In his three-volume history, Antony Polonsky surveys the Jewish communities of eastern Europe from 1350 to the present. Timothy Snyder reviews.

Our oceans are changing faster than at any time in human history, argues Callum Roberts, a British professor of marine conservation. G. Bruce Knecht reviews "The Ocean of Life."

The author of "Midnight in Peking" on books about the misadventures of expatriates—from the real-life denizens of Kenya's Happy Valley to Graham Greene characters in Haiti.

True fiction turns out to be stranger than fake fiction.

A punitive exit tax on the Facebook expat isn't worthy of America.

The J.P. Morgan CEO is not a diplomat and does not perform kowtows to the political powers that be.

A bad legal ruling abets a bad anti-antiterror amendment.

New evidence reveals a vast, cruel network of prison camps.