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On a shelf in my study is a large Chock full o’ Nuts coffee can. Whenever I return from a shopping trip, I throw all the coins in my pocket into that can. Every three or four months, my grandkids and I carry that can to the grocery store and dump the change into the
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“What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people.” What did John Adams mean when he wrote this to Thomas Jefferson in 1815, after both had served as president? Adams
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Jodi M. is a seventh-grade health teacher in a quiet, distant suburb of New York City. She is worried about her students, many of whom have lost their independence and become less resilient as a result of the pandemic. “These kids are so anxious and depressed they can’t do anything for themselves,” she says. (I’m
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First, the good news: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared an end to all Wuhan Flu restrictions in Great Britain. No more mandates. No more masks. No more lockdowns. No more vaccine passports. Boris’s speech last week in Parliament was “the most consequential statement by
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Former President Donald Trump questions the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. For half the country, this makes him a “sore loser” who promotes “conspiracy theories” and pushes “The Big Lie.” But when President Joe Biden in his recent press conference preemptively questions the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections, nine months before they even
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After weeks of vague threats and halfhearted condemnations, the United States government seems to have made its first clear decision on how to respond to the escalating Russia-Ukraine crisis: back out. Over the weekend, the American embassy in Kiev announced it would evacuate nonessential personnel. At the same time, the U.S. put more than 8,000
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