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The case for a global currency

Would it make more sense to have one currency for the entire world?

David Wolman 64
Santorum and Boies contraception

Catholic tribalism and the contraceptive flap

Watching liberals defend a church they disagree with showed us that even Catholic insiders can feel like outsiders

Joan Walsh 215
Confronting CPAC CPAC

The two Americas clash at CPAC

Union demonstrators march on the conservative enclave

Jefferson Morley 41
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy contraception

A compromise only zealots won't take

Obama's birth control move may have satisfied most sides -- and revealed the truth about the bishops' opposition

Irin Carmon 145
Esasha LeBlanc, left, an Army drill sergeant at Fort Jackson, S.C., works with Pvt. Daniel Ladd, 17, of Darlington, S.C. Pentagon

Female soldiers fight the brass ceiling

While relenting on gay soldiers, the Pentagon still excludes women from combat

Linda Hirshman 62
A worker shovels wet concrete at a residential site in Los Angeles, California The Labor Movement

Unions in a “death spiral”? Not on my job site

In the building trades, labor is flourishing

Steve Cooper 27

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