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Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers 0
- Education
- July 8, 2020
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several U.S. states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that
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Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood 0
- History
- July 8, 2020
Zebulon Vance, governor of North Carolina during the Civil War, attained a pardon from the United States government for siding with the Confederacy and became a Senator. His colleagues in Congress enjoyed the company of this witty, earthy man, and a group of them invited Vance to visit them in New England. At one get-together,
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Three Things I Noticed Coming Home to America After Living Abroad 0
- Culture
- July 8, 2020
When you live abroad, the picture you get of America is pretty depressing. It seems like the country is falling apart. I recently returned to America for the first time in nearly two years. Although a U.S. citizen, I have been living abroad since 2012. Flying internationally during a pandemic was never my plan, but
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Abandoning ‘America First’ In Afghanistan 0
- International
- July 7, 2020
With Americans growing ever more divided amid national upheaval over racial inequality and a global pandemic, it has perhaps never been more apparent that the United States has no business trying to fix the world with so many problems on our own doorstep. Whatever his faults, President Trump at least seems to understand this. Even
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My Fourth of July: Hope for America 0
- Culture
- July 7, 2020
My Fourth of July began when I placed six small American flags at intervals along the sidewalk of the front porch of my daughter’s house. As I pushed the flagpoles into the grass, I thought of my deceased wife, who had purchased these and other American flags, and who for years had decorated the lawn
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Supreme Court’s ‘Faithless Electors’ Decision Safeguards Electoral College 0
- History
- July 7, 2020
In a decision issued Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that states can punish presidential electors who break their pledge to support the presidential candidate preferred by the citizens of their states. The ruling affirms the Electoral College as an important part of our constitutional structure – one that balances popular sovereignty with the benefits of
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