What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
When I reached into a box of books that had been stored, I pulled out a paperback from graduate school. A bit dusty, its pages yellowed with age, with the distinctive smell of old ink and paper, my copy of The Search for Christian America made me wince a little.
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Historically, the party and the movement have worked together to mutual benefit.
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Labor Day and May Day both started in the United States. So how did one spread elsewhere while the other become a federal holiday here? Grover Cleveland.
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Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here. Several weeks ago, I needed a ride home after some late-night drinks about two miles from my place in Washington, D.C. I pulled up the Uber app and entered my address.
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Over the summer, my children have been telling—or better yet, warning—me about Andrew Tate, a conservative, mixed-race social media influencer mostly distinguished for broadcasting his disdain for women (in addition to broad racism and homophobia), and who has recently garnered popularity among
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America’s secular canon is without exception comprised of the immortal words of mortals rising in defence of freedom, liberty and equality. Their greatness combined an incandescent moral clarity at great moments of testing.
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Americans should have extraordinary gratitude for the achievements and sacrifices of the generations that gave us the chance to live in peace, prosperity and freedom. It should be accompanied by a deep humility and commitment to better the inheritance of freedom for all people and for all time.
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Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and Patrick Henry didn’t advocate for prosecution of a woman who probably had an abortion.
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How Christian conservatives’ version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.
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The case came to symbolize the ruthless, White-dominated, social order.
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