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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 749

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This is the grave of Joseph Bloomingdale. Born in 1842 in New York City, Bloomingdale and his brother Lyman trained at their father's clothing store. Benjamin Bloomingdale was a German Jewish immigrant who found success in America and wanted his sons to follow his lead. The...
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Legends Speaking

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Gloria Richardson is one of the great heroes of the civil rights movement. But she is far too forgotten about today. Her work in the movement in Maryland was one of the most important moments of the 1960s. Today, Richardson is 98. And she has some...
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Trump is the ultimate Reaganite

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The new Showtime documentary on the Reagans is excellent, and makes an excellent postscript to the conclusion of Perlstein's conservatism quartet. Throughout both, the comparisons between Reagan and Trump are too obvious to require further elaboration. Krugman summarizes: For example, in 1980 life expectancy in America...

And rather graciously, too. On a heavier note, I tend to agree with this analysis from Jared Yates Sexton: https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1337775922993356800 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1337776432894930947 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1337776751393595394 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1337849508487704580 https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1337850540936613895 The ultimate question about Trump and.

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