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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

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An Awakening Electorate?

After elections earlier this month, Oklahoma Republicans might want to consider the wisdom of the aphorism often credited to Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat...

Swedes Decide To Choose Sides

In late February, the Hungarian parliament voted to approve Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That was the final vote – unanimity...

‘May I Have Your Attention, Class?’

Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson writes a daily newsletter of political commentary. She shares these free "Letters from an American" with her...

This Time, It’s Arizona

Just days after Donald Trump tried to defang the abortion issue, it came roaring back in the form of an Arizona law, passed before...

The Anti-Abortion Right Is Not Into Compromise

Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban...

RFK Jr. Is No Friend Of Free Speech

With every day that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. runs his peculiar presidential campaign, he offers a display of delusional narcissism and feckless duplicity. Aside...

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