The Fine Print: My Life as a Deskman
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Amid the hand-wringing over the gutter-level sexual exchanges between Trump and Cruz, it doesn’t hurt to remember that it has been ever thus in American politics.
The Framers far exceeded the convention’s mandate; they devised an entirely new system of government.
In 1915, black journalist Monroe Trotter tried to get D.W. Griffith’s troubling film banned in Boston, igniting a furious debate over racism, censorship, and free expression.
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Both Ida and The German Doctor take place long after World War II, but the rancid legacy of the Nazis continues to stain the lives of survivors good and bad.
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