The president’s blizzard of executive orders is a bold challenge to the powers of Congress and the courts. The Constitution expects them to check and balance.

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Seven Irish authors have made the longlist of 71 books nominated for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction published in English. Now ...

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That’s it. The Federalist Papers, the editorials and pamphlets arguing in favor of ratification that so many students read in high school and college, didn’t add much else on the topic of ...

Many of his papers were destroyed ... Portraits of American authors, including Alger (top right) Public domain via Wikimedia Commons “Alger was at last transformed into a patriotic defender ...

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