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  • Poles Fighting in Gettysburg Celebrate 150th Anniversary

    After surviving one of the American Civil War’s pivotal battles 150 years ago, the Pennsylvania borough of Gettysburg once again faces invasion.

  • Obama’s Keystone Silence Is Driving Green-Activists Away

    Wendy Abrams’ opportunity came in the photo line. As she stepped up to take her picture with President Barack Obama during a fundraiser last month in Chicago, she made her pitch: How could a president who vowed to tackle climate change possibly approve the Keystone XL pipeline?

  • 14 Great Americans on Twitter Before @HillaryClinton

    Hillary Clinton reactivated her Twitter account this week. Writer Yoni Brenner (@yonibrenner) catches up with other famous Americans on Twitter.

  • Privacy Looks Different Through Google Glass

    No sooner had Google Inc. yielded to popular pressure to bar facial-recognition applications from Google Glass than techies split into two factions: those who called the ban an outrage that would hurt law enforcement and medical care, and those who said the ban would make no difference because sooner or later the wall was bound to fall.

  • Google Buys Waze in Push to Expand in Mobile Mapping

    Updated 1 hour, 54 minutes ago

    Google Inc. has acquired map- software provider Waze Inc., seeking to keep competitors such as Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. from eroding its lead in mobile- navigation programs.

  • Why the Belmont Is Named for a Rothschild Banking Agent

    On Saturday, many Americans will tune in for the 145th running of the Belmont Stakes, the final and most grueling leg of the Triple Crown. Few of us, however, know that the namesake of the race, August Belmont, was a dominant financial figure of the 19th century.

  • Shakespeare’s Guide to Washington’s Scandals

    So which scandal is the worst? The Barack Obama administration’s vulgar taste for investigating journalists? The Internal Revenue Service’s belief that some taxpayers are more equal than others? The confusion and inconsistency over the attack in Benghazi, Libya? Or maybe the latest one, the seizure of phone records of tens of millions of innocents?

  • Disney Misses Mickey in Philip Glass’s ‘Perfect American’

    Walt Disney fighting with a malfunctioning robot of Abraham Lincoln -- what great fodder for a juicy operatic scene.

  • Lewis Lapham: Lincoln Moaned, Died as Secretary Watched

    John Milton Hay went east from Warsaw, Illinois, to finish his education at Brown University in Rhode Island, where he decided to become a poet. When he went back home, a depressed Hay changed course and in May 1859 began to study law with his uncle in nearby Springfield.

  • Lessons on Moderation From the First Conservative

    The works of Edmund Burke, an 18th- century British politician and political writer, are no longer as widely read as they should be. Here’s hoping a fine new biography by Jesse Norman, an academic philosopher and a Conservative member of the U.K. Parliament, will help put that right.

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