From tweets posted by the Iowa senator Chuck Grassley since February 2012. Just turned to History Channel. No history. I used to get history. Why do we have such a…

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The religious origins of American liberalism

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From remarks delivered at the PEN America Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers, which was held in May at the United Nations. ayad akhtar: The gravity of this moment is…

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From a series of diary entries from Kyiv, Ukraine, published daily on isolarii.com. february 24: I woke up early to see eight unanswered calls on my phone. It was my…

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The past is always present: examining quotidian life under Jim Crow to reveal its structures

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1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

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Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

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From The Celestial Hunter, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the Italian. In the time of the Great Raven even the invisible was…

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How a pan-African freedom movement lost its way

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