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It is a 900-page policy "wish list", a set of proposals that would expand presidential power and impose an ultra-conservative social vision. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly disavowed ...

As February beckons, I wanted to look at the books I read last year that stayed with me, and that you might enjoy.

The Librarians,' premiering at Sundance Film Festival, follows nationwide efforts to fight against book bans and censorship.

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.