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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Hunter Biden Found Guilty on Gun Charge
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How to win the war on drugs.
Read “Legalize It All” by Dan Baum
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On presidential scandal and slander.
Read “Our Whispering Campaigns” by James Truslow Adams
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On the particular grief and tragedy of losing a child, including the Biden family’s history.
Read “When Children Die” by Perri Klass
Mexico’s First Female President
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A “spot check on how women in general are doing in public affairs.”
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On the unsolved femicides that haunt Mexico.
Read “In Harm’s Way” by Seth Harp
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An American suffragist’s political analysis five years after winning the right to vote.
Read “Are Women a Failure in Politics?” by Emily Newell Blair
Like a G7
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A survey of the second-ever Gallup poll, taken just months before the start of World War II.
Read “What We Think About Foreign Affairs” by Francis Sill Wickware
Happy Father’s Day
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“My son takes a despondent view of life. He finds it a sad affair. I repeatedly remind my son that after all he is only seven weeks old, and that until he has had a wider experience on which to base his opinion, it would be well for him to suspend judgment on the world.”
Read “The Model Father” by Frederick Lewis Allen
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Excerpts from Reginald Gibbons’ stories of dads and daughters.
Read “Between Father and Daughter”
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Jonathan Franzen on literary fathers and finding oneself.
Read “A Different Kind of Father”
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