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Campaigns to ban books have a long history in the United States and liberals and conservatives share the blame for them. But current efforts launched against public school libraries from the right are particularly worrisome because they don’t have the random, disorganized quality of previous campaigns.
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Americans learned on Jan. 6 when Trump-inspired insurrectionists attempted to prevent a duly elected president from taking office that our democracy was far more fragile than we knew.
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The United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan, the “graveyard of empires,” has come to an end. It could have concluded better, but it was never going to end well.
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At least this time no one rolled out a “Mission Accomplished” banner.On July 26, President Joe Biden announced that the 18-year combat mission in Iraq…
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Not many people have read the Pentagon Papers, which were published 50 years ago this month. After all, this insider chronicle of the tragedy that was the…
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Six years ago, Elise Stefanik, newly elected as U.S. Representative to New York’s 21st Congressional District, was a beacon of hope in state and national…
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Twice-elected Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has consistently polled high enough to win the unofficial title of nation’s most popular governor.…