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It was just before New Year’s in the Hunan province of China, when a young pregnant woman named Li Quilang…
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When our Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment, they had no idea that in 1990 the Supreme Court would turn…
For weeks, students at the University of Pennsylvania have been discussing the meaning of an obscure Hebrew word which translates…
