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By Greg Markley Four years after I attended Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, things were changing. I graduated from college with a bachelor’s in political science (which in that economy could get you a good job with a lot of luck and abundant prayer.) After working as a security guard for nine months, I said what-the-heck why don’t I save money for two months and go to Reagan’s inauguration? On the Amtrak train heading to the nation’s capital, I talked with fellow passenger...

By Greg Markley A character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest says: “What’s past is prologue.” What is happening today follows onto what we were doing then, in preparing for good or evil. So the past is not gone in that it brought us forward to the opportunities and pitfalls of this place and time. The recently revised U.S. Citizenship Test (or Naturalization Exam) has features of the previous one,  from 2008, in questions and themes. But the version of December 2020 has been widely panned ...