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

NPR

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Like David McCullough's other books, this one succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller; it reads like a novel and is packed with information drawn from painstaking research.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Bridgett Davis writes a loving tribute to her mother, a black woman with few job options who found a solution in the numbers game.

Reason

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THERE’S NO DENYING that a big chunk of the economy feels pretty screwed up right now for millions of working-class and middleclass Americans. There’s a widespread sense that obtaining housing, education, and health care was once fairly easy and cheap

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.

The Atlantic

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In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration. It was a moment of e

Wisconsin Magazine of History

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Each year, we ask readers to vote for the best original full-length article in the Wisconsin Magazine of History. The Hesseltine award was established in 1965 in memory of historian and past Wisconsin Historical Society president William B. Hesseltin

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

The Atlantic

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The country has fragmented into four groups, our writer argues, each informed by a distinct narrative about the nation’s moral identity.

NPR

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Mitchell Santos Toledo came to the United States when he was 2. His parents had temporary visas when they brought him and his 5-year-old sister to the country. They never left. This spring, Santos Toledo will graduate from Harvard Law School. He is o

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

NPR

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Officials in France and Germany have accused the U.S. of intercepting medical supplies as President Trump ordered an American company to stop exports. Governors complain of a "wild west" in bidding.

Los Angeles Times

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Building housing is a long, slow affair. It's even slower when developers are building housing for homeless people. Just cobbling together financing from myriad sources can take up to two years, and then there's the permitting, the political haggling

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

BBC History Magazine

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David McCullough is a two-times Pulitzer prize-winner and the bestselling biographer of John Adams and Harry Truman. In 2005 he wrote a groundbreaking book about the 17 months between King George III’s declaration of war on his American subjects in O

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Atlantic

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Washington, D.C., can be an easy city to mock or resent—but it’s full of workers who’ve given up opportunities to serve something larger than themselves.

Manhattan Institute

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Hollywood has made a movie about an iconic American event, but ditched the icon. It has created a smarmy, dishonest, and dollar-driven perversion of the truth, akin to making a movie about the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics and leaving out a certain hocke

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

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

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

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

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

Los Angeles Times

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MCALLEN, Texas - The last child departed what was once the nation's largest shelter for migrant youths on Friday, a "tent city" in the west Texas desert town of Tornillo that had spurred protests, official criticism and proposed legislation. Workers

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