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How a Founding Father Helped Create Modern American Philanthropy

How a Founding Father Helped Create Modern American Philanthropy

Michael Meyer on the Sources of Benjamin Franklin’s Altruism

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The War We Can Stop: On the Seven-Year Conflict in Yemen

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