An award-winning poet and writer of fiction, she moonlighted as a competitive horsewoman and owned a horse farm outside Columbia, S.C.

A month before taking office, Helena Moreno is steering the city through a budget crisis and a Border Patrol enforcement operation that has immigrants in hiding.

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Readers react to President Trump’s disparaging comments about Somalis in the U.S. Also: Academic censorship; a prejudice against psychiatric medication.

Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.

Why country and cowboys have a hold on our culture and our political imagination.

The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.