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A good citizen is someone who actively works to improve their country. While there are many interpretations of what it means to be a good citizen, the idea has been explored by various thinkers throughout history. Aristotle distinguished between a good citizen and a good person. He argued that a good citizen is defined by their role in both governing and being governed, while a good person is judged by a singular, absolute standard of virtue. This distinction highlights that one can fulfill the duties of a good citizen without necessarily meeting the moral ideals of a good person—likely ...

New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s This American Life Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation’s ever-evolving political system and history. Sarah Vowell...

On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym hall of a primary school in Dunblane armed with four legally owned handguns and in less than four minutes fired 105 bullets, killing 16 young children, their teacher and injuring many more. It was a crime that first shocked the world then...