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  • America's big shift right

    Why the country's conservative drift, on a wide range of issues, has accelerated.

  • Pulitzer Prize 2011: Who are the winners in the arts?

    From the work of a recent US Poet Laureate to a satire by a Steppenwolf Theatre-affiliated playwright to a Chinese folk-tale-turned opera, the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes for the arts represent a lively and wide-ranging mélange.

  • The Publisher

    Alan Brinkley looks beyond the stereotypes to create a more nuanced portrait of magazine publisher Henry Luce.

  • Was the New Deal too small?

    A lesson from Great Depression, historians say, is that Roosevelt didn't spend enough to jolt economy into recovery.

Doing Good

 

What happens when ordinary people decide to pay it forward? Extraordinary change...

Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

 
 
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