Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has ...

Welcome to “Phoning It In,” a gameshow I made up because I am tired and busy but also like to learn about new books! (I am, ...

In response to the election, a significant number of people on social media and elsewhere have expressed some form of this ...

Thus far much of the commentary about Trump's cabinet and staff picks alternates between "He values loyalty above all else" and "He wants to generate chaos and break the federal government." There’s ...

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