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For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most.

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From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.” ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

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This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth ...

As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was obsessed with cameras, and her downfall began when ICE abuses, including ...

The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ...

The nation’s official motto, “In God we trust,” has appeared on coins since the Civil War. The Pledge of Allegiance promises ...