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‘Why do you have to make everything about race?’
Square dancing, editing and history
Gillian Brockell
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Taylor Swift & the Chelsea Hotel
Girlfriend knows her tortured poets at 222 W. 23rd St.
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My late-night adventure with the Trump bible
When a Trump-grift mystery and too much Vyvanse meet: Think China.
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Selling a plantation in 2024
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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Get the ‘arc of the moral universe’ out of your mouth.
Clean countertops, empty history.
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It doesn't matter if the next president dies or declines
Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hi! I compiled this thing about time for you.
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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One neat trick to prove the Civil War was not about states’ rights
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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E. Jean Carroll, Maria Halpin, and the historical record
History is always biased when a human decides what gets included, and who gets left out.