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What constitutes ‘correct’ grammar in English seems to have a cyclical life, aided and abetted by new generations of enthusiastic grammarians.

The dangers of summer vacation.

A Colorado high school teacher studies the benefits of summer school.

Before there such a thing as "YA," librarians struggled not just to define a genre, but to figure out how to get books in the hands of young readers.

Where did the notion of teaching people how to spend their free time come from, and why did it disappear?

In our final security studies column, our columnist posits that security as a permanent mode of government is actually making Americans less secure.

Historians Judith Apter Klinghoffer and Lois Elkis argue that this wasn't oversight. New Jersey legislators knew exactly what they were doing.

The term "filibuster" used to refer to Americans who went to foreign countries to fight in their wars without the government’s permission.

If successful, Amy Coney Barrett would become the 7th current Supreme Court justice to be raised a Catholic, and the sixth conservative Christian.

Some political philosophers suggest that arguments about civility are a distraction from the real political issues.

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