The U.S. Senate is debating whether to establish a "truth commission" to investigage allegations of criminal wrongdowing by members of the...
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Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and co-chair for the Network of Spiritual Progressives, this week will publish a full-page ad in the...
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English Fare Paine returned to England in 1887 to seek investors for constructing a prototype iron bridge, his own invention. His bridge eventually...
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French Treats In revolutionary France, Thomas Paine earlier had joined with Washington, Hamilton, Madison, and select other Americans to be declared...
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Unwelcome Homecoming The first copy of The Age of Reason to arrive in America for U.S. publication was lent to Thomas Jefferson for a first reading....
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On this day when we celebrate the 60th anniversary for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as we near the end of the administration of...
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