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(TNS) Let’s suppose you’re teaching a current-events class about terrorism, and a student says that Muslims should be banned from the United States. W...

(TNS) I live in two worlds. In one of them, the education world, there are angry and divisive battles over our public schools. But in the other one, k...

(TNS) A quarter-century ago, while casting about for a dissertation topic, I decided I wanted to write about alcohol prohibition. In a nation of so ma...

(TNS) TEL AVIV, Israel — Here’s a pop quiz about the six-nation nuclear pact with Iran, signed last week: Which Israeli official called it a “horrible...

A few years ago, I found myself sitting on an airplane next to a gentleman from Egypt. Talk quickly turned to the upheaval in his country, where the s...