In Essence

Not since the election of JFK has America chosen a president so closely associated with the Ivy League.

Not only is trimming pervasive, says the government's new regulatory czar, it is also honorable.

There are signs of change in what one scholar calls “the poisonous domestic political climates in both Tehran and Washington.”

"International institutions channel the United States’ power and enhance its security," say two Dartmouth political scientists.

Assessing the Job Corps, a Great Society program that works.

To a spell-checking program, "boatman" is as good as "Obama."

Niche reporters and correspondents from overseas now dominate the Washington press corps.

The American Revolution may be more accurately viewed as a series of local civil wars.

Baby names paint a remarkably revealing picture of village life in western Uganda from 1900 to 2005.

What do you give a celebrity who has everything? A god.

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