The same forces of globalization and consolidation that hit the rest of the economy have wrecked America’s farms.
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A new book examines weaknesses in China’s meritocratic system—and in our own.
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A new book examines weaknesses in China’s meritocratic system—and in our own.
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The Library of America gives Jimmy Breslin the treatment.
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If children are the future, then Guatemala greatly undervalued its own.
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Taking the bus can be a harrowing experience.
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State of the Union: We are walking backwards into the Tudor era.
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State of the Union: We are walking backwards into the Tudor era.
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A fresh anthology supplies a reintroduction to British India’s Rabindranath Tagore.
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State of the Union: Few Westerners ever get a glimpse inside Wa State, once the world’s biggest opium producer and now a major source of meth.
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A newly translated history of the Republic of China reveals a vibrant, free society.
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State of the Union: Sweeping Grand History must come back. And is much needed.
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State of the Union: Jude Russo on H.L. Mencken’s “Days” trilogy.
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State of the Union: Burtka’s book, Gateway to Statesmanship, may inspire the next generation of American leaders.
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Two professors argue based on documentary evidence that the Japanese did not forcibly conscript Korean women to be prostitutes. 
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James Pethokoukis’s new book dives into the fall of “Up Wing America,” but offers few answers.
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A new collection edited and introduced by John Burtka seeks to revive the neglected roots of statesmanship.
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Katy Faust and Stacy Manning provide a blueprint for breaking the revolutionary cycle.
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