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Welcome Our Newest National Monuments!

Often it seems that modern presidents can’t do anything — except wage war. Here’s a heartening exception.

• James Fallows
• February 12, 2016

'Lincoln the Lover,' Debunked

• Caroline Mimbs Nyce
• February 12, 2016

Patience: The FBI's Strategy to End the Oregon Standoff and Nab Cliven Bundy

The bureau successfully played the long game in both cases.

• David A. Graham
• February 12, 2016

A Guilty Verdict in the Akai Gurley Case

A Brooklyn jury convicts Officer Peter Liang of manslaughter and official misconduct in the 2014 shooting.

• J. Weston Phippen
• February 11, 2016

Punching Above Their Weight in Mississippi

Mississippi schools come in #49 in many national rankings. Read these essays and poems by high school students from Columbus, Mississippi. Then tell the folks who make up the rankings that they need a different algorithm.

• Deborah Fallows
• February 11, 2016

The End of the Oregon Standoff

All four holdouts at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have surrendered.

• J. Weston Phippen
• February 11, 2016

'Insult to Homicide': Cleveland Sues Tamir Rice's Family for Ambulance Fees

The city has filed a suit demanding $500 in payment for emergency treatment for the boy after a police officer fatally shot him.

• David A. Graham
• February 11, 2016

Obama in Springfield, Then and Now

• Marina Koren
• February 10, 2016

Quoted

• Rosa Inocencio Smith
• February 10, 2016