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EXPLAINER: What the release of 2020 census numbers means
After a decade of planning and a head count that took place against the backdrop of an unprecedented pandemic, natural disasters and partisan legal battles, the U.S. Census Bureau is releasing the first numbers from […]
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UZZELL: Madison’s five lessons for overcoming polarization (Part 2)
Lesson 2: Find creative ways to encourage both sides of every argument. Throughout his life, Madison retained great faith in the power of the free press to remedy the evils arising from “fake news,” as […]
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HARSANYI: The Democratic Party is radicalizing against the Constitution
Republicans are “radicalizing against democracy” because they rely on our constitutional process when governing. This is the essence of Chris Hayes’ recent Atlantic piece contending that the GOP is descending into authoritarianism. The MSNBC host […]
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What happens if Biden doesn’t finish first term as president
Joe Biden will become the oldest president inaugurated when he takes the oath of office on Wednesday, Jan. 20. At the age 78, he is at the average life expectancy age in the United States, […]
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Today in history: United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution
In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)
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WILLIAMS: Historical ignorance and Confederate generals
The Confederacy has been the excuse for some of today’s rioting, property destruction and grossly uninformed statements. Among the latter is the testimony before the House Armed Services Committee by the chairman of the Joint […]
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HILL: What if Jefferson wrote ‘all men are not created equal’ instead?
Amid all of the public vitriol about the inherent sin of slavery in our nation’s creation, one thing has been completely forgotten and not considered at all. What would have happened had America not been […]
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Man gets prison for failed theft of Magna Carta in England
LONDON — A U.K. judge has sentenced a man to four years for attempting to steal one of the original copies of the Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral in England. Mark Royden, from Canterbury, Kent, […]
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Indoor worship services return as executive orders challenged
RALEIGH — Thanks to a federal court ruling, over this past weekend churches across North Carolina held indoor services for the first time since Gov. Roy Cooper imposed a stay-at-home order on the state, which […]