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The Downhill Slope of Reading and Books
- Culture, Education, Featured, Literature
- December 18, 2025






‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,
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Today Stanley Fischer submitted his letter of resignation from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, effective next month, the second such resignation of Donald Trump’s presidency. While Fischer’s term as Vice Chairman of the Fed was set to end next year, he had the ability to serve as a governor through 2020. Along with Trump’s
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Five years ago candidate Donald Trump burst onto the political stage like a breath of fresh air. The first aspirant to America’s highest office since the end of the Cold War to recognize that this country’s political, military, economic, and moral resources were not deployed in a balanced manner, he sought to protect and enhance
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It’s the end of the world as we know it—at least that’s what some people would have us believe about President Trump’s education budget. It’s “a devastating blow to the country’s public education system,” according to National School Boards Assn. CEO Thomas Gentzel. More like a “wrecking ball,” says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National
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Love him or loathe him, Americans would agree that President Donald Trump delivers bombshell policies and critiques like no one else, yet on April 13th he sent a message to the American people that left me speechless when my daughter first read it to me. In his “Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025,” Trump opens
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FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Michael S. Rogers have both testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that they do not have any information or evidence to support US President Donald Trump’s claims the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the election. The committee is investigating allegations of collusion
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