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Under its surface, the innocent-seeming Reagan-era classic reveals much about America's shifting racial narrative

Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?

America is the greatest economic and military power in world history — and our quality of life is garbage. But why?

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A generation after Democrats fled from the term "liberal," the right is going after "progressive," too

Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, Bobby, were no crime. But dude — even your grammar is a tell

Fox News' Steve Hilton on how "America First" works: Understanding the populist ideology that drives Donald Trump

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A new book distills all of the 19th century poet's work to a collection of snarky one-liners. Amazingly, it works