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America's nineteenth-century country editors are fun to read about, but they shouldn’t be regarded as a foundation for solving today’s crisis in local news coverage.
Self-described "amateur" composer Norah Duncan IV has been a creative emblem of Detroit's rich Black Catholic heritage.

A Warning Sign for Big Tech

The $17 billion settlement against Meta provides important proof that tech’s self-congratulation can be challenged—and that one needn’t be a Luddite to challenge it.
A conversation with journalist and political science professor Peter Beinart about the deep ideological shifts within the American Jewish community since the war in Gaza began.
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A new exhibit at the Morgan Museum and Library traces tarot's transformation from a courtly card game in fifteenth-century Milan into a map of the modern subconscious.
Omri Boehm looks to Abraham for biblical evidence of philosophical universalism. His reconstruction is speculative, at best.
The Declaration’s grievances offer a portrait of political domination, teaching us what it feels like to be subjects rather than citizens. Can we recognize the predicament it describes?