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The “divisive matter of race,” the authors write, “which the founding fathers had tried to sidestep, would emerge as the seminal issue during the next fifty years.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The stock is up 20% so far in 2026, and remains very popular among analysts with fifty or so contributing recommendations and forecasts to FactSet, and all but one recommending either overweight or buy.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Two hundred fifty years ago, the “truths” Thomas Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence were not yet “self-evident,” as Elaine Pagels pointed out in a recent essay.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

For about fifty years, scientists have puzzled over another related mystery.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026

These were not the large timber wolves but the smaller northern brush wolves, perhaps weighing forty or fifty pounds each, about as large as most of my team.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen