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Arms controllers sort missiles by how far they fly, because range decides who can be hit, and who can be hit decides the politics.

The federal government's first venture into the care of small children was not, in its own terms, about children at all.

Every American president for the past twelve decades has been able to do something that would have puzzled the men who wrote the Constitution: appoint a body of outsiders, or of hand-picked insiders, to go hunting…

The State Department says it will cancel visitor visas issued over a ten year span to anyone who ever applied for asylum, using a revocation power Congress deliberately placed almost beyond the reach of the courts.

In the last week of April 1763, four of the King's messengers went into the printing houses of London carrying a piece of paper that named nobody.

One new rule lets OPM remove sitting federal employees through a "suitability" finding instead of the process Congress wrote for firings, and a second rule takes the appeal away from an independent board and says no court may review the result.

A grand jury found that $10 million owed to Florida taxpayers was carved out of a Medicaid settlement and routed through a charity and two nonprofits into a political committee, and that no witness would say who decided it, which is why nobody will be charged.

Begin at the foot of Maiden Lane. From 1699 into the early 1800s, New Yorkers bought their meat, produce and fish at the Fly Market, under roofed stalls the city itself had built, on ground the city itself controlled.

For half a century before 1913 the United States had no central bank and, by statute, a currency that could not grow.

New York has committed $70 million of capital money to build five stores that private operators will run on city-owned land, the first of them a public market the city has owned since 1936, and the 30 percent discount at the center of the fight rests on an annual subsidy the city has not yet put a number on.