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The outgoing president’s legacy of revived antitrust enforcement won’t be easy to undo.
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Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
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Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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“We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.” (From 1963)
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“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle Sam can do that.” (From 1897)
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