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Albert Quie, Conservative Who Was Ahead of His Time, Dies at 99
As a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota and as the state’s governor, he became identified with…
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Nikki Haley Is the Best Trump Alternative
I have a bunch of friends and acquaintances who are Never Trump, maybe-Trump or kind-of-Trump Republicans. They’ve been looking around…
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Five Debate Moments That Will Shape the Republican Campaign
There are moments of fireworks at every presidential debate, and then there are moments that last — the moments that…
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In a Report From a Distant Border, I Glimpsed Our Brutal Future
Once in a while, some single thing manages to encapsulate all that feels terrible about our world today. For me,…
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Carol Robles-Román, Latina Champion for Justice, Dies at 60
As a New York City deputy mayor and a lawyer for the city and state court systems, she fought for…
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What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway
What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for…
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America Is Losing Religious Faith
While much of the rest of the industrialized world has become more secular over the last half-century, the United States…
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What Can Replace China as a Global Economic Engine?
China has apparently told its economists to stop talking — a P.R. tourniquet to keep the bad news from bleeding…
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Fixing America’s Health Care System
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