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Economists track consumer confidence. Political scientists track voting patterns. But if you really want to...
The Divergent Thinking Memory
By Vartan Koumrouyan There was not a before and an after, a physical separation...
The Save Act Won’t Save Anyone
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is built on a premise that refuses to...
Hurt Transformed by the Arts into Healing
By Al Schnupp Milo Sensenig was a husband and father of seven children. He hung himself...
Big Shoes, Small Courage
Abraham Lincoln famously assembled a “team of rivals,” filling his cabinet with some of the...
Stars and Stripes Forever
A version of this piece appeared in The Washington PostIn January, the Pentagon threatened to...
Choose Your Fighter
There is an uncomfortable irony at the heart of today’s politics: the loudest champions of...
A State of Disunion
It’s not worth debating the so-called finer points of Donald Trump’s State of the Union...
