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  • Burning Down the House0

    Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025), by Katherine Stewart. In her new book, Katherine Stewart builds a well-researched argument that democracy is under attack from an unlikely alliance of ultrawealthy financiers, intellectuals, and right-wing influencers. Stewart displays her skills as a veteran investigative journalist as she exposes

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  • Bumper Sticker Indignation0

    My wife and I had just bought an aging Toyota in fairly good working order, for a reasonable price. After our busy week of car hunting and a full work schedule, we decided to unwind over lunch that Friday afternoon at a new Korean restaurant in town. For a while we were the only customers

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  • Bully on the Block0

    ??The school bully—singular—used to be the kid who’d turn the other kids upside down and shake the milk money out of their pockets. Times have certainly changed. These days bullies are everywhere, and today a bully doesn’t even need size to gain an advantage. The Internet has leveled the playing field, and geeks are as

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  • Bull in the China Shop0

    I will never forget my visit to the Golden Temple of the Sikhs, in Amritsar, India. It was my first visit to that fascinating country and quite a few years before the Sikh rebellion and an Indian Army attack on the temple, the holiest site for the Sikh faith. Founded by Guru Nanak Dev (1669-1538),

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  • Built on Faith: The Bible and the American Republic0

    INTERVIEW A new museum in the birthplace of American democracy highlights a neglected history It’s a high-tech, $60 million, twenty-first-century museum devoted to values extracted from an ancient book. The American Bible Society’s Faith and Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opened in May 2021 and sits in the middle of America’s “most historic square

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  • Bubble-Zone Freedom0

    The young woman, like so many others before her, brushes past the older woman on the sidewalk, averting her eyes from a sign with a baby's picture and the words "Why, Mom–When I Have So Much Love to Give?" "We have only about seven seconds to try to make a contact with them," says 52

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