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For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

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Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

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Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now ...

It was a strange weekend for employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to say the least. On Friday, ...