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The day after Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, I was scrolling through TikTok, trying to figure out the coconut thing, when I was served up a supercut video from the Daily Mail. I know these kinds of videos well; as a video editor for The Washington Post during the
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention's mangled lesson
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Square dancing, editing and history
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Girlfriend knows her tortured poets at 222 W. 23rd St.
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When a Trump-grift mystery and too much Vyvanse meet: Think China.
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Real estate is such a revealing indicator of America’s relationship with its history, but especially so in the mid-Atlantic region where I live. I just finished reading Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap,” which explains how white elites in each generation
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Clean countertops, empty history.
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Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hey there! If I sent you this link, it is because I want to share with you something that changed my life. It comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He was in jail because of a bunch of super-racist white a-holes who loved oppressing
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The dead week between Christmas and New Year’s was always a banner time for Retropolis. Perhaps readers felt they weren’t too busy to read something historical and that may or may not have any relevance to their lives. In successive years, we got on huge traffic on this
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History is always biased when a human decides what gets included, and who gets left out.