Sosa made it into an elite SOTU club, if not the HOF.
Tag: Bill Clinton
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Segregation and Obama’s second term
It’s never politically expedient for a president to fight segregation
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What a robbery in Edgewater says about the police staffing debate, part one of two
A close look at a jewelry store stickup and the politics of police deployment
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The shot that brought the projects down, part three of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part three of five
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The shot that brought the projects down, part two of five
How the 1992 killing of Dantrell Davis forever altered not just the landscape of Chicago but urban policy nationwide, part two of five
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When Norman Mailer finally got to talk shit in the New Yorker
After his death, Norman Mailer got to curse in the New Yorker
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Joe Meno’s inappropriate answer to the Hollywood rom-com
A book release party for Joe Meno’s Office Girl
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On Robert Caro, LBJ, Clinton, editors, and deadlines
I have a personal reason for appreciating Robert Caro
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The forgotten issue in the presidential campaign
The African-American child poverty rate is severely high and climbing, but neither Romney nor Obama is talking about it
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The puzzler and the puzzled
A Reader staffer searches through, down, and across the history of crosswords to construct his own
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Keeping his Mitts on his money
Romney pays a low rate of taxes, and if elected, will fight to keep it that way
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The President’s ménage à trois
Running a country is tough—keeping your two partners happy is even tougher.
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Now online: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (part 1)
The first of a three-part series on Adam Curtis’s essay-film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.