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Today is Independence Day -- the Fourth of July -- when we celebrate the founding of this great nation we call the United ...

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As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...