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At 250 who will America Be?

History Bites

Back to the Future: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July Barn Burner

In 1852, the former slave and forever abolitionist called out America’s basest hypocrisies.

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Comics

A Trio of Graphic Novels Make Relevance Artful and Entertaining

“Hey, Mary!,” “Animal Pound,” and “The Red Badge of Courage” bring gender identity, political upheaval, and war into focus.

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POLITICS

POTUS’s Military Parade/Birthday Bash Was No World-Beater

The crowd was middling, as were the emotions, perhaps a harbinger of a post-Trump era.

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NEW YORK

NYC’s ‘No Kings’ Protest Defies Trump and Swipes at Cuomo

Ten years after: As a protest sign read, “We knew it would be bad, but Holy shit.”

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THE FRONT

The Disappeared: MAGA’s Performative Cruelty Is a Warning to Us All

Four books shed light on the black holes of Trump’s deceitful deportation and detention agenda.

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THE FRONT

Ricky Kurt Wassenaar: A Killer For Trump

The president routinely demonizes immigrants as “horrible killers” and “bad hombres,” but most U.S. criminals are homegrown — and Trump supporters.

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THE FRONT

Memories of ‘Phantom Utopias’ Are Paving the Way for Fascism Around the Globe 

Recent books reveal how current dictators and wannabe autocrats use revisionist histories to gloss over the bad old days of European despotism.

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History Bites

Fighting Fires: A 1989 Billy Joel Hit Would Include Cory Booker’s Stemwinder and Democracy Marchers Today

Led by a coalition of labor unions, veterans, and civil rights, LGBTQ+, and women’s rights orgs, this past weekend’s nationwide “Hands Off!” protests attracted millions.

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THE FRONT

New Yorkers Protest Local Boy Made Bad

President Trump and his overshadowing wingman, Elon Musk, were the main targets of protesters’ peaceful wrath.

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THE FRONT

Fighting the Rerun President’s Dark Vision of Autocracy

We look at books and online resources that map out resistance to Trump’s plans to make America great for robber barons and racists again.

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