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The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers... →
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and... →
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional... →
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage... →
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in... →
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for... →
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American... →
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had... →
To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme... →
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass.... →
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices... →
Noah Feldman (born 1970) is an American author and professor of law at Harvard Law School.