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1 week ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lindsey Hilsum |Adam Sutcliffe |Thomas Small |Lawrence Douglas
It was the year Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon and David Bowie had a red-and-blue lightning bolt painted on his face for the cover of Aladdin Sane. The Rolling Stones went to No 1 in the US with “Angie” and Elton John sang “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. 1973 was also the year when rock’n’roll was born in Greenland.
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3 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lisa Hilton |Caroline Moorehead |Lawrence Douglas |Ben Hutchinson
“Few passions are constant, but many are sincere”. The maxim is by the Marquis de Vauvenargues, one-time proprietor of the Provençal chateau where Pablo Picasso and his second wife, Jacqueline Roque, lived between 1959 and 1961, and where they are buried. Speaking to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, the artist’s mother was blunter on the vagaries of love: “I don’t believe any woman would be happy with my son.
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4 weeks ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas
1.According to Article I, “Congress shall have power to … provide … for the general welfare of the United States.” This reveals that:The framers understood that Congress should be responsible for maintaining the socio-economic health and stability of the nation, with the president playing a subordinate role. The framers had no idea what they were doing.
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1 month ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas
You know we’re in trouble when Fox News emerges as the great defender of freedom of the press.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | John T. McGreevy |Kyle Burke |Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway
Jackson Lears’s new collection confirms his status as an enduring presence in American intellectual life. Written over the course of forty years, these essays address figures as diverse as the nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams and the frequent Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, and topics ranging from the contemporary university to American foreign policy. They invite readers to reflect on a distinguished career.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway |Sarah Baxter |James Robins
In December 2022 Donald Trump blithely called for the “termination” of the Constitution, a comment that predictably triggered outrage and disbelief. In No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution threatens the United States, Erwin Chemerinsky suggests that the former, and possibly future, president might be on to something. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley’s law school and a prominent constitutional scholar, is hardly a Trump supporter.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Lawrence Douglas
These are not easy days for supporters of American democracy. But what twists my innards is not the prospect that in three weeks’ time, the majority of voters could hand the reins of power to a vengeful authoritarian demagogue. Instead, I’m sickened by the prospect that the electoral college can do that for us – that Kamala Harris could win the national popular vote, but come up short where it counts.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Lawrence Douglas
The threat to democracy posed by former President Trump was exposed most glaringly in his response to his electoral defeat in 2020, when, for the first time in American history, a sitting president sought to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. In the years since, Trump has continued to lie about the election, insisting that a Democratic conspiracy rigged the result.
