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With his new $2.65 trillion plan, President Joe Biden has redefined “infrastructure” as an investment in not only the physical or technological underpinnings of American society, but also the humans that keep it humming.  The plan spends far more on affordable housing, manufacturing, and caregiving than it does on roads and bridges. Coming on the heels of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, it represents the most significant push for big government since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society or even Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Why We Wrote This President Biden’s b...

Loading the player... Christians around the world will soon be celebrating Easter, which commemorates Christ Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. His resurrection changed human history. As a Christian Scientist, I feel deep gratitude and reverence for the spiritual strength, moral courage, forbearance, fidelity, and selfless love Jesus expressed. It offers such a compelling example to us all. Jesus knew long before he was arrested what awaited him. He foretold more than once that he would be sentenced to death and then raised on “the third day” (see Matthew 16:21 and 20:19). Jesus must ha...

By Joan Gaylord Correspondent Activists in the 1980s had tried for years to persuade government officials to address the growing AIDS crisis. They finally broke through with a patchwork of hand-stitched fabric squares memorializing those who had died – the AIDS Quilt. Displayed in Washington and in communities across the United States, the enormous and ever-expanding project captured the public’s attention as nothing else had. Politicians could no longer ignore the situation. As Glenn Adamson makes clear in “Craft: An American History,” this was not the first time that handic...

Yangon, Myanmar A group of opponents of Myanmar’s military government declared the country’s 2008 constitution void and put forward an interim replacement charter late Wednesday in a major political challenge to the ruling junta. The actions were taken by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), an underground, self-styled alternative government established by elected lawmakers who were not allowed to take their seats when the military staged the coup in February and ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The CRPH, which represents the National Parliament, m...

“Libertie,” a novel about a Black girl growing up in 19th-century New York, rings with historical truth.