The Atlantic

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Today is no ordinary day in America. The House of Representatives will begin an impeachment inquiry of the president, a process undertaken only rarely in the past two centuries. In doing so, the House will exercise a power granted to it by our countr

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us. One of those “others” is Caroline Glick, who writes on her webpage from Israel: “Americans are now expected to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner and disavow American history whi

Foreign Policy Magazine

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WITH ALL THE THINGS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW in politics, in Hollywood, in popular culture, the ugly but necessary conversation is occurring. People are trying to understand health care, tax reform, foreign policy, and what the Paris climate agreement is.

Los Angeles Times

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The electoral college was an unwanted child from the beginning. Born in Philadelphia in mid-August 1787, when most delegates to the Constitutional Convention were eager to escape the heat and humidity and go home, it was the fruit of a compromise bet

The Saturday Evening Post

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When I was a kid, we seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time at school studying history — with an emphasis on American history. I remember in fourth grade struggling almost to the point of tears to put together a report on the 13 colonies that h

TechLife News

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Google is committing to a White House initiative designed to get private companies to expand job training for American workers. CEO Sundar Pichai was making the announcement Thursday during an appearance with White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump a

American History

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Politician documents how James Madison’s ideas evolved across 50 years, primarily after the Constitution debuted, offering examples of his subject’s capacity for self-education. Initially no advocate of replacing the Articles of Confederation, Madiso

TechLife News

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As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm. “The Chinese virus,” they called it — or, in a few

AppleMagazine

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As the coronavirus spread across the world and began its reach into the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm. “The Chinese virus,” they called it — or, in a few

The Atlantic

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The Founders designed a government that would resist mob rule. They didn’t anticipate how strong the mob could become.

The Atlantic

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William “Sandy” Darity Jr., economist and professor, Duke University I wish that Radical Reconstruction had been made a reality after the end of the Civil War. This would have entailed the promised 40-acre land grants to the formerly enslaved, their

TIME

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I’M A NUMBERS GUY. THEY’RE HOW I UNDERSTAND THE WORLD—what’s good and what’s bad, what’s working and what isn’t. After I stepped down as CEO of Microsoft and began getting more involved in philanthropy and civic advocacy with my wife, Connie, I reali

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It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us. One of those “others” is Caroline Glick, who writes on her webpage from Israel: “Americans are now expected to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner and disavow American history whi

The Guardian

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In extraordinary times, as statues fall, Bettye Kearse has written an extraordinary book. It contains lessons for all Americans

Columbia Journalism Review

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Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there have been metro sections in newspapers, focusing o

Farmer's Weekly

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Farmers must not fear land reform as it is not as draconian as it seems. This was the message from Grain SA chairperson Jaco Minnaar to Swartland farmers at the annual Grain SA Winter Rainfall Region’s general meeting in Moorreesburg recently. Howeve

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

Manhattan Institute

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Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once labeled writers and other creative people “engineers of the soul.” In his passion to control what people saw and read, Stalin both coddled artists and enforced unanimity through the instruments of a police state. To

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Today, we put up a new project page on The Atlantic, collecting together a series of profiles on the winners of this year

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It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us. One of those “others” is Caroline Glick, who writes on her webpage from Israel: “Americans are now expected to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner and disavow American history whi

The Atlantic

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The head of the National Constitution Center speaks out on how social media has eroded the founding father's vision for democracy.

TIME

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PASSIONS WERE HIGH, AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE United States was eager to act. In 1798, John Adams, amid talk of war with France, signed the Alien and Sedition Acts to, in his view, protect the national interest against internal dissent and outside agi

Literary Hub

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American leaders really did once pride themselves on enterprise and invention. And yet now—day in, day out—you read reports of devolution in the U.S. on every conceivable government-run front. It really seems like the singular goal of our current adm

Literary Hub

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This week we’re previewing the most anticipated nonfiction titles coming out this fall, covering memoir, essays, history, biography, science, tech, social science, and more. We continue today with politics and social science. Robert Kuttner, The Sta

Cannabis & Tech Today

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While it may seem as though the U.S. has become the United States of Cannabis in the 2010s due to rapidly growing legalization, the world as a whole has begun to embrace the substance. According to The Motley Fool’s list of projected cannabis spendin

Literary Hub

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I began this as a note to Lit Hub staff. We haven’t been in the same room since March but I nonetheless count myself lucky to have such brilliant, supportive, and humane colleagues—their work, their kindness, their humor has made it possible to navig

NPR

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In his new book, Michael Beschloss focuses on the lead up to war. But a more pressing danger and indictment of presidential power may be the interventions not authorized by Congress.

Los Angeles Times

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The federal courts are not meant to provide a remedy for every ill of the world, including climate change. In such matters, we need to rely on the political branches to take charge. That was the primary message out of the U.S. District Court for the

Presidential Actions

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SUBJECT:   Delegation of Authority under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of Amer

Union of Concerned Scientists

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It’s tough reading or listening to the news these days, from impeachment to racial attacks to sidelining science. But what is that? I think I see one! A ray of hope in all of the storm clouds: a growing appreciation for the role of civil servants in