With Peggy Flanagan in the spotlight, it's the perfect time for "Rise to the Challenge," a new memoir by Marlene M. Johnson, Minnesota's first elected female lieutenant governor.

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The best way to view the 2024 presidential election and to understand the dramatic transformation of American political ...

In the summer of 1941, James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key role in planning the ...

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For 1,000 years, Boethius’ book — “The Consolation of Philosophy” — was the second most-read book in the world behind the ...

Rating all of the former First Lady’s bizarre, conspiracy-theory-laced ads for her memoir, Melania, from “bland” to “what is ...

This Shanghai bookstore, now in D.C., was revived by its owner, who hopes to create a space for open discussions in the ...

When the janitor of Drake Public School tossed a pile of books into the building’s furnace in 1973, he did not do so as a ...

Good outlets are recognizable because they take steps like clearly differentiating opinion from news, having a track record of reporting truthfully, and issuing corrections if and when errors are ...

In “Lucky Loser,” two investigative reporters illuminate the financial chicanery and media excesses that gave us the 45th ...