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September 4, 2023 5:30 am
Labor Day: ‘Building, Breaking, Rebuilding’
Perhaps the most famous lines Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) ever wrote were from this 1914 poem, “Chicago,” describing the city where…
September 4, 2023 5:30 am
Labor Day: How Political and Economic Freedom Are Linked
It has never been a class holiday. It has always been a national holiday.
July 4, 2023 3:10 am
Let’s Make July Fourth a True Independence Day
Together, we can live up to the Declaration's promise.
July 4, 2023 3:00 am
What It Takes to Protect the “Fundamentals of 1776”
FDR on the war and the fight for democracy.
July 3, 2023 5:30 am
This July Fourth, Remember the ‘Founding Scoundrels’
They helped build America, too.
June 30, 2023 3:46 pm
Alan Arkin, 1934–2023
A funnyman whose dramatic range turned out to be limitless.
June 20, 2023 5:30 am
GOP Rivals’ Merch Stores Are Open
A look at the products and messages being sold to supporters by the candidates for president.
June 7, 2023 5:31 am
The Taliban Are Who We Thought They Were
Once again under Taliban rule, Afghanistan has become oppressive, brutal, and dangerous to its neighbors and the world.
May 31, 2023 5:30 am
Cormac McCarthy and the World’s Horrible Unknowability
His new novels deserve to be remembered as the literary event of the last decade.
