Why even center Democrats should stop worrying and learn to love Howard Dean (or, at least, love fighting with him).

As head boy at a legendary choir school, Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested by the charismatic choir director, part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such a thing never happens again.

The struggle over Social Security is liable to define politics for years to come. Why both sides are studying the Clintons’ health-care debacle.