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To put it lightly, 2025 has been . . . tumultuous. This madcap year marks the halfway point of the 2020s, a period that has brought instability and chaos like we've never seen before. What started ...

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage. By Richard Kreitner Richard Kreitner is the host of the U.S.

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In Aldous Huxley’s utopian novel “Island” (1962), the mynah birds roaming the landscape are trained to cry out “Attention!” as a call to the islanders to be aware and present in the moment. We need ...