When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted about fighting narcoterrorists using the classic Franklin children’s books. “Franklin the Turtle” is a book series for children written by Canadian writer Paulette ...

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