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Americans are drinking more coffee than they have in decades. But fewer of them are getting it from Starbucks.

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In 1915, former President Theodore Roosevelt criss-crossed the country as a champion of what he called “Americanism.” The ...

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...