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A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

By William J. Burns

You all deserved better.

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Who’s Afraid of Gay Penguins?

By Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell

A couple of years ago, our picture book was pulled from library shelves in Florida. Now an evolving legal strategy threatens others like it.

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She Has No Autonomy. Can She Be Happy?

By Hillary Kelly

Kate Riley’s perceptive debut novel, Ruth, depicts the life of a woman in a repressive sect without an ounce of sanctimony.

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The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH

By Katherine J. Wu

All research is allowed so long as it’s “scientifically justifiable.”

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The Sword and the Book

By Eliot A. Cohen

Pete Hegseth is wrong to think that civilians have little role to play in military education.

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