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With The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding (Random House, August 12), Nwanevu injects more complexity into the political discourse on democracy and its uncertain ...

Scientists have historically looked askance at such anthropomorphism; after all, we never truly know what animals are feeling. But that mindset has been evolving in recent years as zoologists have ...

Everybody’s talking about romance: Romance/fantasy books fly off shelves, huge networks of BookTok influencers focus mainly on romance, romance is getting people to read who haven’t picked up a book ...