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There is something that has been sorely missing in the United States in the last decade — soaring rhetoric. We are lacking leaders who, like Abraham Lincoln, appeal to our better angels through their ability to craft rhetoric that resonates in people’s hearts and minds.

Bob Odenkirk doesn't remember anything about his heart attack last summer — not the CPR, not the three defibrillator zaps that brought him back to life and nothing from the eight days he spent recuperating at Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital. Even the week after he went home is sketchy. He vaguely…

Apparently the third president harvested opium and had a pet mockingbird named Dick

On this anniversary of the birth of Hiram Ulysses Grant, 200 years ago Wednesday, he is remembered as the 18th president of the United States, commander of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and national hero. He can also be thought of as an ordinary human being who struggled…

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Civil War general and two-term president Ulysses S

Their crusade to remake America after the Civil War fell short — but it was one of our nation's finest hours

Teachers often encourage students to debate a controversial issue. Clayton Christensen favored another strategy.

If we are reckoning by money, Benjamin Franklin — the man on the $100 bill — is 20 times as important as Abraham Lincoln, 100 times as important as George Washington and 10 times as important as Alexander Hamilton, notwithstanding "Hamilton." This is bad math, of course, because there is…

Chicago has sponsored hundreds of events to ensure equitable access to vaccines and testing. The announcement that all funding of these resources for the uninsured will end undermines this work.