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1950 census an epic treasure trove

The recent release of the 1950 U.S. census has inspired those interested in genealogy to track down information…

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Unlikely, but here’s how Illinois could escape its fiscal abyss

Prophecy is optional folly, but predicting a convulsive crisis for the nation’s worst-governed state merely involves understanding its…

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Has Putin’s brutality finally hit a wall in Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin learned his brutal code of war in the “sandpit streets” of Leningrad when he was a…

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What Biden’s dead-on-arrival budget reveals

If you meant to discredit the U.S. government’s whole approach to budget planning, you’d struggle to improve on…

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Shrinking U.S. Navy isn’t good policy

President Joe Biden says he’ll boost defense spending next year because the world is more dangerous. But the…

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Clarence Thomas and his wife’s texts: a kerfuffle over appearances

When, in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” Mr. Bumble is told that the law assumes that a wife is…

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Walk forward better

It’s an old Washington political trick. When you’re in trouble, change the subject. President Joe Biden’s poll numbers…

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The curious cannabis politics of South Carolina

Cannabis is on a roll these days as lawmakers in South Carolina – and in Washington, D.C. –…

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Smollett’s sideshow mocks real tragedies

True to his profession, actor Jussie Smollett reacted to his sentence of jail time for his hate-crime hoax…

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At the root of democracy: Free flow of information

As Ukrainians fight and die for democracy, Russia is arresting its own citizens who are protesting the war…