It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

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In the same week it was revealed that the slogan would be missing from the field at the Super Bowl, the N.F.L. commissioner defended the league’s diversity efforts. But what’s really at stake ...