Freedom
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On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached
Last week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Harris said that on…
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Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
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World
2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past
On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman…
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Our Society is Not a Bee Hive
This week in The Texas Monthly, I read a troubling profile of Tim Dunn, a 68-year-old billionaire Texas oilman and…
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Why I Am a Liberal
More than at any time since World War II, liberalism is under siege. On the left, some people insist that…
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What the Insurrectionists of 2021 and 2023 Have in Common
The most talked about part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made with Republican radicals to become Speaker of the House…
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When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others
Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an…