At 250 who will America Be?

“The same policy that led us, in countries like Poland, to champion the rights of the ordinary Poles, led us, in countries like Vietnam, to outdo the communists themselves at exterminating the peasantry. It became a monstrosity, that policy.”

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Dazed, shaken, guided only by the purpose Don had bestowed on me, I joined the throng trudging up Centre Street.

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The “Grand Theft Party” wants to steal your vote.

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A 1985 book covering the Reagan administration's global flailing presages Trump’s deadly bumbling of today.

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On September 8, Sarah Longwell, publisher of the online Never Trump site The Bulwark, will appear live onstage to discuss her new book. 

Reagan raised a storm of controversy when he agreed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of victory in World War II by honoring the worst of our former enemies.

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“Perhaps because he himself is so utterly a product of American mass culture, mass culture has proved unusually responsive to Ronald Reagan.”

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The GOP has given us an unelected POTUS and then a convicted felon to oversee our biggest birthdays, so maybe this 4th of July, party with some local culture. 

In 1976, the culture critic asked, “What is it that Americans share?”

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The White House is using alien slop to distract from war, pedophilia, and inhuman policies.