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Jonathan Sheehan's history of sacrifice explores how people's beliefs about sacrifice in the past have been reappropriated today.
Michael Hollerich
The most surprising insurgent this election cycle is in Donald Trump’s adopted home state. Can Angie Nixon show Democrats a new way to compete in Florida?
What if Martin Luther King, Jr. were just a bit player in the struggle for racial equality? Marcia Chatelain tells us how history could look very different.
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Ben Rhodes's new book makes an earnest case for the political power of words. But the degradation of our public life can’t be reversed by rhetoric alone.
In 'Picky,' Helen Zoe Veit chronicles the gradual dulling of American kids' palates.
The radical priest Ivan Illich spotted disturbing trends in medicine that most doctors continue to overlook.