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The Constitution was an effort to chain down and destroy certain powers.
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Will this administration’s spending require a future tax hike?
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Bush fostered a shareholder society.
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No Democrat ran for Congress and said, “I will raise your taxes and these icky Republicans are too busy cutting your taxes.”
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Grover Norquist, on how he’s shaped the national agenda.
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The Web fosters a staggering level of global connectedness when it comes to communication, but may not actually change language all that much.
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The poet explains why “one of the things that we need to do as Americans at present…involves keeping the imagination of the future alive.”
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Europe is a place where people have been continuously creating culture for quite a few thousand years, so the pressure of history is on you in every instance.
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France, Italy, and Spain have their painters; Germany and Italy have their composers; but few countries can challenge England and America when it comes to poets. Trilingual poet Jorie Graham […]
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How growing up in Rome and attending college in France shaped Jorie Graham’s sense of language.
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How does climate change stack up against malnutrion?
