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How a Patriotic Painting Became the Internet’s Soap Box

“Freedom of Speech,” the World War II-era painting by Norman Rockwell, has taken on a new life online.

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On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached

Last week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Harris said that on…

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Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?

Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.

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2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past

On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman…

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Our Society is Not a Bee Hive

This week in The Texas Monthly, I read a troubling profile of Tim Dunn, a 68-year-old billionaire Texas oilman and…

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Why I Am a Liberal

More than at any time since World War II, liberalism is under siege. On the left, some people insist that…

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What the Insurrectionists of 2021 and 2023 Have in Common

The most talked about part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made with Republican radicals to become Speaker of the House…

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When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others

Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an…

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