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In his new book, ''The Struggle for a Decent Politics,'' the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition. THE STRUGGLE FOR A DECENT POLITICS: On ''Liberal'' as an Adjective, [...]

THE TRIALS OF HARRY S. TRUMAN The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953 By Jeffrey Frank In a happier and perhaps more democratic era, the belief prevailed that every [...]

Tough Loves My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For SUSAN RICE, SIMON a SCHUSTER, 544 PP., $30, OCTOBER 2019 The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir SAMANTHA POWER, DEY [...]

AFTER THE FALL Being American in the World We've MadeBy Ben Rhodes If you have spent eight years as the chief speechwriter and confidant of the president of the United [...]

Doctor Dolittle, the hero of Hugh Lofting's children's series about an English country doctor who learned to speak the language of animals, turns 100 this year. My own acquaintance with [...]

THE PEOPLE, NOA Brief History of Anti-PopulismBy Thomas FrankECONOMIC DIGNITYBy Gene Sperling Is the central truth of the 2016 election that Donald Trump won by capitalizing on the racism, xenophobia [...]

TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth By Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice As secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice hung up [...]

IN THE ANCIENT southeastern Turkish city of Antakya, 20 miles from the border with Syria, a plump Syrian merchant who calls himself Abu Nabil can be found most evenings drinking [...]

THROUGHOUT THE SECOND WEEK of March 2011, the vastly outgunned rebel forces in Libya fell back before an onslaught by troops loyal to Muammar al-Qaddafi. In the United Nations Security [...]

All of the Republican candidates for president believe that Barack Obamas foreign policy has failed the United States; most of them believe he has failed in the same way. They [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTHE ORDINARY VIRTUES Moral Order in a Divided World By Michael Ignatieff 265 pp. Harvard University Press. $27.95. A century ago, on the eve of World War I, the [...]

Genoa is a city, which occupies the center of the Ligurian arc. It is a city that began along the harbor in the sixth century. The experience of James Traub when he was lost in the city and the discovery of the port's heart and the open attractions of the surrounding coast are discussed.

CLINGING DESPERATELY TO OUR horses, my 11-year-old son, Alex, and I were clattering along a rocky defile in the Laikipia hills, northeast of Nairobi. "You're doing great!" shouted Bimbi Dyer, […]

The Florence Renaissance villa, La Pietra, will be open to the public this summer for the first time. The article provides historical background about the village and its inhabitants.