Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

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J ohn A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s ...

Kristen is a fan of Still Life, by Sarah Winman, and the sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who is a master at imagining ...

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Mike Johnson keeps the speaker’s gavel after Donald Trump convinces holdouts to switch their vote. And we are days away from ...

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It’s not a magic wand to save America—but neither is it entirely useless.

The hovering, “intensive” approach to parenting that has steadily come to dominate American, and to some extent British, ...

Representative Earl Blumenauer thinks more lawmakers should eat well, exercise, and develop deep connections with their ...

Then it caught the attention of John Ratcliffe, President Trump’s director of national intelligence. In late September 2020, weeks before voters would choose between Trump and Joe Biden, Ratcliffe ...