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In Hamilton’s debt: Why he’s worth saving on the $10 bill

The Treasury Department picked an interesting moment to announce a revision in its plans to change the faces on America’s money. Plans to boot Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill in favor of a woman have been shelved. Instead, Harriet Tubman—one of the most heroic figures in the history of our nation, or any nation—will […]

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Candidates’ silence on women’s health troubling

What if we talked about gun violence, and discussed only bullet size? To me, that seems akin to the presidential campaign discussion of women’s health. Somehow, in nine Democratic debates, not a single question was asked about women’s health, and when the issue came up elsewhere it was often in the narrowest form, about abortion: […]

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SEAT: Inspiration from a weekend in Dallas

As the only son of two immigrant parents from a relatively small town in northwestern Indiana, I never thought my life’s journey would bring a president within eyesight. And, yet, there he was, the 43rd president of the United States.

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