Deanne Stillman is a best-selling author whose latest book is American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother. She is also the author of Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.
In 2001, my book, Twentynine Palms, about death near a California Marine base, exposed class and sexual violence in a military town. Some things are better now, many are not.
Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidate says he’s for “self-determination for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike.” But for most Israelis, self-determination means a Jewish state.
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Christoper Nolan’s epic film is enlightened, not woke.
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The National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Annual Heart of America Survey shows Americans worrying about economic pressure and craving leaders who end polarization.
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The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
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The senator from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking a fight with party progressives. Maybe there’s a lesson there.
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Andy Burnham has built his political identity around Britain’s neglected industrial communities. His premiership may depend on whether he can deliver for them.
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