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When religion was forced on Americans
BEFORE THE AMERICAN REVOLU-tion, many colonies had established churches supported with tax dollars or imposed religious restrictions on voting or holding office. There was no separation of church and state. In Virginia, the most populous colony, everyone paid a tax to support the Anglican Church, which controlled marriage, poor relief, and care of orphans, and enforced laws regarding profanity and church attendance. If religious dissenters died leaving young children, Anglican officials would often place them in an Anglican home. Dissenters who failed to attend Anglican services regularly were often fined.
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July 07, 2025
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Arms And the Man
FOR NATO CHIEF MARK RUTTE, GETTING EUROPE TO PAY MORE FOR ITS DEFENSE MAY BE THE EASY PART
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July 07, 2025
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A ZOMBIE MOVIE WITH BRAINS
28 Years Later revives a franchise, and a genre, that's about so much more than the walking dead
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July 07, 2025
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A bombshell movie-star mother, with bombshell secrets
WHEN MARISKA HARGITAY WAS 3, she and two of her brothers survived the car accident that killed their mother, bombshell movie star Jayne Mansfield. The kids were asleep in the back seat; the three adults in the front—Mansfield, her companion at the time, and the car’s driver—were killed instantly. Mariska’s two brothers, injured, were carried away from the scene. It wasn’t until later that one of them, 6-year-old Zoltan, realized Mariska wasn’t with them: she was pinned beneath the passenger seat, with a head injury. If Zoltan hadn’t spoken up, Mariska might not have been found until it was too late.
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July 07, 2025
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Caroline Fraser The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on her new book about serial killers, the Pacific Northwest, and toxic chemicals
Your last book was a biography of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder. How do you go from that to serial killers? I was born and raised in Seattle and remember growing up with the presence of Ted Bundy. Even though I wasn’t touched by the case directly, having it happen so close was a big deal. Bundy kidnapped and killed two women on the same Sunday afternoon from Lake Sammamish— just six miles from me. It was all anybody could talk about. And then there were so many others...
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July 07, 2025
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U.S.Strikes Iran, Joining War
THE CONFLICT WILL AFFECT GREAT-POWER RIVALRIES, GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS, AND THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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July 07, 2025
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Moving forward from anguish with laughs
AT THEIR BEST, MOVIES CAN BE SUBTLE EXPRESSIONS of feelings we’ve had but can’t fully articulate. Besides, when it comes to feelings, articulation might be overrated: one of the functions of art is to explore the undefinable, and sometimes it’s a relief to let a movie do some of the emotional heavy lifting for us.
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July 07, 2025
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The truth and sanity of American history
I AM A HISTORY PROFESSOR AT ONE OF THE UNIVERSITIES under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flagwaving patriot with an abiding love of the U.S. Those two statements might seem surprising, or contradictory, if you do not know what has happened to the teaching and writing of American history in the past 50 years. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It asserts that American historians have rewritten American history and replaced “objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
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July 07, 2025
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Can the Musk-Trump feud ground NASA?
ON JUNE 5, AS THE FEUD BETWEEN ERSTwhile besties President Trump and Elon Musk escalated, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, \"The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!\"
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July 07, 2025
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The Risk Report
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN Poland delivered the latest anti-incumbent surprise in what has been a tough period for establishment candidates the world over. The right-wing populist Karol Nawrocki, a historian with no political experience, won a narrow victory in a June 1 runoff vote over a candidate aligned with the centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his plans for closer European integration. Nawrocki will take office on Aug. 6. Tusk must now buckle up for a bumpy ride.
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July 07, 2025
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The Founders saw the dangers of concentrated wealth
AS THE U.S. APPROACHES ITS 250th year, the richest 10% hold over 67% of household wealth and increasingly seem entitled to power and privilege.
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July 07, 2025
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The American Dream, glimpsed through skeptical British eyes
IN THE THIRD SEASON OF HBO’S THE GILDED AGE, A FROTHY costume drama set amid the robber barons and socialites of 1880s New York City, a servant suddenly comes into money. So much of it, in fact, that he’ll never have to work again. But instead of seizing his newfound freedom, the man keeps his windfall a secret and continues toiling below stairs. He simply can’t imagine leaving a household staff that has become his surrogate family.
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July 07, 2025
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BRACE FOR SUMMER
What's at stake as Trump targets experts on climate and heat
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July 07, 2025
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5 things to say to someone who won't get off their phone
Trying to talk to someone fixated on their phone is such a universal experience, there's a name for it: phubbing, short for \"phone snubbing,\" or ignoring someone in favor of a phone.
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July 07, 2025
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AI helped a couple get pregnant after 19 years
DOCTORS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FERTILITY CENTER have reported the first pregnancy using a new AI system, in a couple who had tried to conceive for nearly two decades.
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July 07, 2025
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The world's most sustainable companies
IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE, COMPANIES ARE navigating compounding problems: supply-chain issues, tariffs, changing government incentives for environmental programs.
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July 07, 2025
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Young leaders drive environmental change
A new generation of Chinese is stepping off the beaten path to protect deserts, birds and biodiversity — turning environmental ideals into everyday action
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June 23, 2025
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Coral Reefs In Peril
How we can protect the ocean right now
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June 23, 2025
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Documentary revisits ping-pong days of 1971
In 1971 the American table tennis player Glenn Cowan boarded the wrong bus during the world championships in Nagoya, Japan. He missed the U.S. team's bus and got on the next one, only to find himself on the Chinese team’s bus.
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June 23, 2025
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Mike Birbiglia The comedian on his fourth Netflix special The Good Life, the rise of right-wing comics, and being funny vs. being famous
What would you say people like about you?
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June 23, 2025
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SNEAK ATTACK
Ukraine's audacious drone strikes deep inside Russia may announce a new era in warfare
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June 23, 2025
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Phil Robertson
Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson died at age 79, his family announced on May 25, a few months after revealing he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
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June 23, 2025
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Valuing Our Oceans
It's time for a shift in economics
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June 23, 2025
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Health Matters
AS CONGRESS EYES SWEEPING cuts to Medicaid, the health care program for low-income adults that serves about 20% of people living in the U.S., a new study has a sharp conclusion: cuts to Medicaid will cost lives.
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June 23, 2025
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THE DISAPPEARED
INSIDE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S DEPORTATION PROGRAM
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June 23, 2025
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F1 MAKES A PITT STOP
Big stars and fast cars combine in a summer bid to fill theaters and grow a global fan base
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June 23, 2025
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Q&A With Diva Amon
The marine biologist working to protect our oceans from deep-sea mining
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June 23, 2025
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THE ORB WILL SEE YOU NOW
An audacious startup wants to prove you're human. What else does it want?
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June 23, 2025
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Why are '100-year storms' happening so often?
CLIMATE CHANGE IS LEADING NOT ONLY TO DROUGHTS, wildfires, and extreme weather. It's also leading to oxymorons—at least when it comes to what are known as 100-year storms, floods, and other events.
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June 23, 2025
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A New Turbulence
Politics is roiling the waters that should connect us
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