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As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...

We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...

In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...

We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...

Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...

Irish-born comedian David Nihill looks at how stand-up comedy principles can be applied to public speaking, drawing from his book...

What do we make – what does their home state of Kansas make – of Charles and David Koch? Business reporter Christopher Leonard exa...

Michael Kranish, an investigative political reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the 2016 best-seller Tr...

The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his first...

Drive through the Mississippi Delta today, and you’ll find it dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Most c...