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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 894

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This is the grave of George Graham. Born in 1770 in Dumfries, Virginia, Graham was a descendant of the Catholics who had migrated to Maryland for religious freedom. But let's be clear, their religious freedom by no means would get in the way of enslaving Africans...

Trumka

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Richard Trumka, long-time president of the AFL-CIO, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. There is much to admire about Trumka's career. He will be remembered.

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The power of the purse

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Good, and this absolutely needs to happen: The Biden administration is considering using federal regulatory powers and the threat of withholding federal funds from institutions to push more Americans to get vaccinated — a huge potential shift in the fight against the virus and a far...
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Jeffrey Clark, the highest-ranking DOJ official who tried to install Donald Trump as dictator, has been rewarded with a nice sinecure with a prominent libertarian litigation group: Despite the extreme and dangerous nature of these antics, Clark has not been exiled from the conservative legal movement....
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