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Transcript: Senate Majority Leader John Thune on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 5, 2025

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The following is the full transcript of an interview with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 5, 2025. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you for making time for us—  SEN. JOHN THUNE: Great to be with you. MARGARET BRENNAN: —on a big day

Lincoln, Davis, and a Biography Divided

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The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.

On the Bubble

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Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a