America’s most respected psychiatrist-historian analyzes the Republican party under Donald Trump and finds similarities in Chinese brain washing, Nazi doctors, and a Japanese doomsday cult.
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In her most recent book, Harvard Professor Nancy Rosenblum reveals the truth about cries of ‘Fake News’ and the right wing, democracy-destroying conspiracies backed up by no evidence except the statement, ‘A Lot of People Are Saying.’
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Impeachment is far more fundamental than punishing Donald Trump. In fact, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Mason were obsessed with it as a remedy for a chief executive who assumed the powers of a king.
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Only a few decades ago the greatest athletes in pro sports had no more rights than farm animals. The president of the Dallas Cowboys even likened them to cattle. Risking their careers they fought for economic justice. Legendary sports attorney Jim Quinn was on the front lines every step of the way.
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The secret heroes of World War 2 were sworn to a life-long vow of silence that all but wrote them out of history. They were young women covertly recruited and trained as code breakers whose work saved many thousands of lives and helped turn the course of the war.
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18,000 visitors descended on Wellfleet’s tiny village downtown for its annual Oysterfest this year. The town’s most entertaining historian tells us why the annual event is a lot more than an excuse for ecstatic beer drinkers from around the world to cheer on people opening mollusk shells.
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Sarah Smarsh was raised on a Kansas wheat farm, the child of generations of teenage mothers and farmers whose hard work only dug themselves into deeper holes. In her bestselling memoir Heartland she talks about how these people are all but ignored as we pretend there is no social class system in America.
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Roy Cohn sent Ethel and Julius Rosenberg to the electric chair. He was the right hand of Senator Joe McCarthy and taught Donald Trump the deadly art of winning at all costs. And yet, he was at war with the IRS, a closeted gay man, and adored by a surprising number of liberals.
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This year’s garden was a heartbreak. The tomatoes didn’t ripen, the weeds were rampant, and the rabbits ate everything. Is it climate change? Incompetence? The Eleventh Plague of Egypt? A horticulturalist explains all.
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