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Five Horses Tavern offers hearty comfort foods with a healthy twist

BOSTON – Exposed red brick walls and a dark long wooden bar welcome customers to the Five Horses Tavern in the trendy South End. The hearty American fare on the menu and the warm atmosphere make you feel perfectly cozy, especially with the dark cold winter days ahead. The restaurant serves

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Hillary Clinton’s shameful role in Benghazi

Why is it that in the last 40 years, the only American ambassadors to get murdered were when Democratic administrations were in office? Before Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Benghazi in 2012 on the evening of Sept. 11, the last American ambassador to be killed was Adolph Dubs during

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The waning influence of American political parties

Young Americans don't care much for political parties. According to the Pew Research Center, 48 percent of millennials (ages 18-33) identify as independents. That's almost as many as identify as Democrats (28 percent) and Republicans (18 percent) put together.

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The education of an American

When I was in school in the early 1960s (long before the onslaught of "political correctness" so popular today), I did not learn anything very serious or substantial about the history of this country to which I had immigrated as a boy. In some cases, the things my

Massachusetts

There’s no ‘diversity problem’ at Boston Latin

Like other Boston residents, I have been perplexed at the degree of controversy surrounding our best public school, and the misleading analysis in local media, such as The Boston Globe. Underlying the race-relations controversy is the complaint that Boston Latin has a "diversity problem," that it doesn'

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Diversity, race, ethnicity, and privilege

I am an American. That designation being insufficient for purposes of the diversity-accountants of the modern civil-rights movement, I am a straight, cis-gendered male of European ancestry, particularly Irish. Apparently, this means that I am the product of privilege. I am, in the sense that that I was born into

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Puerto Rican bonds and the small investor

The TV ads flash the noble faces of American retirees and urge Washington to help protect their savings. The back story is kept rather vague. It's that many older people invested in Puerto Rican bonds. The U.S. territory's economy is in deep crisis, and it

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Trump’s rise is driving immigrants to become citizens

MIAMI (AP) — On a recent Saturday morning in South Florida, 50-year-old Edgar Ospina stood in a long line of immigrants to take the first step to become an American. Ospina has spent almost half his life in the U.S. after emigrating from his native Colombia, becoming eligible for citizenship