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You’ve likely never heard of her.

Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.

Reflections on the Rat Pack: Many people know what they did. This is what they meant.

The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.

Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.

Connections with childhood, with a way of looking at life, and with a generation that remade our world

From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth

Here are 12 classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through It’s a Wonderful Life one more time.