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

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.

Wild West

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Two hundred years ago (Aug. 10, 1821, to be exact) Missouri was the 24th state admitted to the Union. Its 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis are commemorating the history of the “Show Me State” with ongoing events. For more informatio

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.

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

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

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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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

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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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

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

Manhattan Institute

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Howard Husock joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss Husock’s new book, Who Killed Civil Society? The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms. Government-run social programs funded with tax dollars are thought to be the “so

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

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.

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

The Atlantic

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Americans don’t feel safe. More than half worry “a great deal” about crime and violence, the highest rate seen in 15 years. Nearly the same proportion believe shootings will become more common over the next decade. And doesn’t it feel like things are

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.

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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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

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

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

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