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But that does not justify Republican efforts to put Christianity into classrooms
With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to paint Kamala Harris’s polling surge as inevitable. Americans consistently told pollsters they were dissatisfied with their presidential...
Kamala Harris’s first encounter with pro-Palestinian protesters since becoming the Democratic nominee unfolded at a campaign rally in a Michigan suburb on August 7th. As Ms...
In popular imagination, it is around St Patrick’s Day that Chicago reaches peak Irish. Each year, on the Saturday before March 17th, the city’s plumbers union...
The puritans who founded America’s divinity schools could not have imagined that they might need a course on property negotiation. But these days, in addition to...
Standing outside a quaint house in the Philadelphia suburbs of Delaware County, Dawn Stensland sounds like an agony aunt. “I was a closet conservative, like maybe...
The bickering among Democrats and Republicans over which party’s nominee is weirder is among the more hopeful developments of this presidential campaign. It implicitly brings to...
KEN MARTIN, the chairman of the Democratic-Farmer-Labour Party (DFL), Minnesota’s affiliate of the Democratic Party, tells a story about how the state’s governor, Tim Walz, got...
Jobseekers attend the JobNewsUSA.com South Florida Job Fair held at the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida, on June 26, 2024. Joe Raedle | Getty Images...