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religious freedom: supreme court rules on latin cross war monument

For many people, destroying or defacing the cross that has stood undisturbed for nearly century would not be neutral and would not further the ideals of respect and tolerance embodied in First Amendment... World War I memorial cross Bladensburg, Maryland, has been the..

norman stone, rip

Little details like these are what make Stone’s new book on the first world war a gem, albeit a very little gem — 187 pages, including maps, index and sources — on a big subject. ... Just when he’s lost you on the beginnings of the first world..

globalization’s wrong turn

For roughly 50 years before World War I, plus a brief revival during the interwar period, the gold standard set the rules of economic management. ... After effectively suspending the gold standard during World War I, the United Kingdom returned to it in..

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supreme court is clear: government hostility to religion not ok

., honoring 49 men in the county who died in World War I, does not violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. ... The Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial is a cross-shaped monument that has been sitting on state land. ..

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