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With ten novels published by the time she was thirty-seven, Jodi Picoult ranks among the more prolific and ambitious young American writers. She has been characterized by critics as a women's fiction author; she contests this label, however, citing her p...

It has been over 45 years since John F. Kennedy campaigned against Richard Nixon, an inveterate anticommunist with impressive foreign-policy credentials, on the “missile gap.” Contending that the Eisenhower administration had left America vulnerable to Soviet military expansion and that new leadership was needed to...

A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authorities and published their names in a report released Thursday.Information about the so-called "ghost detainees" was gleaned from interviews with former prisoners...

Manhattan declared war on Brooklyn on Sept. 16, and the first casualties are Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss. Writing in The American Scholar (www.theamericanscholar.org), Melvin Jules Bukiet gives the recipe for “Brooklyn Books of Wonder”: “Take mawkish self-indulgence, add a heavy dollop of creamy...

National Security: Democratic presidential candidates think Rudolph Giuliani has some nerve saying the U.S. will suffer another 9/11 if one of them is elected. In reality, he touched a nerve by merely stating a fact.According to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, former New York...