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Today in history: The Lusitania is torpedoed and sinks 100 years ago
May 7, 2015The British passenger liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat 18 miles off the Irish coast.
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Bewitched: America’s Puritan past – and present
May 7, 2015"Abigail/1702" reminds us of America's primal sins and psychoses, and ponders the deeply reactionary side of U.S. history.
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“I’ll sit out the 2016 elections”: really?
May 7, 2015Announcements by candidates running for president are coming fast and furious; the 2016 election campaign has begun.
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Antidotes to inequality — time for some $58,000 traffic tickets?
May 6, 2015The protests that followed last year's deadly Ferguson police shooting have revealed how local courts are gouging poor people on fines for minor offenses.
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Teacher Appreciation Week in Chicago: a cut in pay?
May 6, 2015Teacher Appreciation Week had barely begun when news broke that teachers had to take a seven percent pay cut.
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