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Thirty years ago this summer, two midwestern governors had a radical idea: that states band together and stop handing taxpayer-funded subsidies to private businesses. The idea fizzled, and we've since seen ever-increasing corporate handouts. As governors convene this year, support for a change is growing again.

With a Senate framework for new regulations on gun control in place, hopefully we're headed for the slippery slope that gun lobbies long have dreaded.

Juneteenth is a day when generations of Black Americans have come together to celebrate freedom from slavery. It's a day that, until recently, was not widely acknowledged outside of some Black communities. Even though President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021, too many Americans are still unfamiliar with the day or its significance.

Readers struck by the work of Sassoon, the famous poet and soldier of World War I, will find pleasure and grief in this exquisite film by Terence Davies.

The only way to move sensible gun safety legislation through Congress is to force the Republicans to vote. Make them stand up and explain why they're opposed to banning the sort of assault weapons that can shred a human body to the point that only a DNA match can identify the victim.

One aspect of the war in Ukraine demands much closer attention: the failure of the U.S. and its rich-country friends to build strong partnerships with the developing world.

Will Bear is a shape-shifting nomad in the seedy underbelly of America, in Chaon's evocation of Tarantino, Kerouac, Pynchon and more. Hamilton Cain reviews.

In the aftermath of major mass shootings, politicians and pundits depict the killers as crazed monsters and blame mental illness as the fundamental cause. But this a misleading narrative.

The long-running, award-winning Fox animated series “Bob’s Burgers,” created by Loren Bouchard, is an unassuming Hollywood success story.

It's far too easy for advertisers and others to discover a pregnancy. A Princeton professor used cash transactions, private browsers and social-media blackouts to keep hers a secret, but most are not so lucky.