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Benjamin Dueholm is a writer and Lutheran pastor working in Chicago.
In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro’s fourth mammoth volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson, the newly and tragically elevated president confronts the reality that his slain predecessor’s aggressive civil rights bill is stalled in Congress. Shortly before the assassination, Johnson had argued for moving the rest of the Kennedy agenda through Congress first. […]
A NASA-led mission that showcases competence and collective purpose—launched, improbably, under a government that rewards neither.
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Centrist and progressive Democrats can’t stop fighting over how to fix America’s crisis-ridden K-12 schools. Truth is, each side has part of the answer. If they would compromise and combine forces, they could trounce Republicans, who have given up even trying to improve public education.
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Even as she showed deep empathy for young girls, Judy Blume remained a mystery to herself.
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Hungary’s illiberal prime minister could lose power in elections on April 12, while Trump speeds toward disastrous midterms.
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