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What the Coronavirus Means For the Presidential Campaign
What will the coronavirus outbreak mean for the presidential race? It could go at least two ways.
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Dropout Candidates Show Flaw in Bay State’s Early Voting
When early voting in Massachusetts began last week, Democrats had eight active presidential candidates to choose from. As of Super Tuesday, that number was down to five.
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Pride and Prejudice vs. the Sexual Revolution
Many of us have watched the 1995 A&E/BBC made-for-TV movie Pride and Prejudice, taken from the great Jane Austen novel written in 1812. It is a marvelous film with superb acting, telling the timeless story of the love affair between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in Georgian
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For A Reagan-Style Landslide, Trump Needs New York, California
With the 2020 presidential contest increasingly looking like a matchup between Senator Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump, the pundits are divided over the expected outcome. "Trump has an excellent chance to win re-election," David Leonhardt reassures readers of the New York Times.
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Having Her Cake and Eating It Too
Who would have guessed a tiny pill could bring down a civilization? No screaming Vikings rowing ashore taking over villages. No barbarians with swords and knives galloping through medieval gates. No. A tiny pill destroyed a culture of family. Some still agree the family was the foundation of western, but
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Bloomberg’s Wealth, Like John Hancock’s, Is Double-Edged Sword
This Presidents Day week, I am thinking of John Hancock. Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael Bloomberg of his day — a politician simultaneously appreciated for his great wealth and resented for it.
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Is Mayor Pete Running for Mike Bloomberg’s Cabinet?
A long, damning news story about Michael Bloomberg in The Washington Post this past weekend ends with an odd vignette designed to make the reader think the reporter isn't entirely out to get his subject. Bloomberg, according to a former colleague, "changed a lot through the '
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Celebrating Uncle Tom – He Isn’t Nearly What You Think He Is
In preparation for a talk on the life and import of Frederick Douglass, I was encouraged by my daughter, Katie, to read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Like many of us, I knew about the importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's great novel in the cause of abolition of
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