Freedom
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Newyork
How a Patriotic Painting Became the Internet’s Soap Box
“Freedom of Speech,” the World War II-era painting by Norman Rockwell, has taken on a new life online.
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Newyork
On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached
Last week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Harris said that on June 19, 1865, after Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, “The enslaved people of Texas learned they were free.” On that day, she said ...
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Books
Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
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US
2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past
On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman called home.
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Newyork
Our Society is Not a Bee Hive
This week in The Texas Monthly, I read a troubling profile of Tim Dunn, a 68-year-old billionaire Texas oilman and lavish financier for right-wing extremists in the state. “In the past two years,” Russell Gold writes, “Dunn has become the largest ...
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Newyork
Why I Am a Liberal
More than at any time since World War II, liberalism is under siege. On the left, some people insist that liberalism is exhausted and dying, and unable to handle the problems posed by entrenched inequalities, corporate power and environmental ...
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Newyork
What the Insurrectionists of 2021 and 2023 Have in Common
The most talked about part of the deal Kevin McCarthy made with Republican radicals to become Speaker of the House involved concessions to those members on rules, powerful committee assignments for members of the House Freedom Caucus and the creation ...
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Books
When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others
Jefferson Cowie’s powerful and sobering new history, “Freedom’s Dominion,” traces the close association between the rhetoric of liberty in an Alabama county and the politics of white supremacy.