Written shortly after Nixon’s resignation, James Brown’s “Funky President (People It’s Bad)” speaks to today’s political corruption too.
Tag: Gerald Ford
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Vice, Adam McKay’s gonzo anti-biopic of Dick Cheney, earns our attention
The story itself is less revealing than the telling.
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Thursday was actually a bad day for Trump
Millions of voting Americans—including hundreds of thousands in Chicago—come from those Eastern European countries Trump might not bother to defend
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After 40 years, Black History Month’s abolition is overdue
Stop presenting American history as if it were white history with a few black cameos.
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Best Films of 2014, number six: Last Days in Vietnam
J.R. Jones counts down his favorite films of 2014. Today at number six: Last Days in Vietnam.
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Rick Perlstein crosses The Invisible Bridge between Nixon and Reagan
In a new book, Chicago historian and Nation writer Rick Perlstein continues to chart America’s rightward shift.
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Artist on Artist: Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little Richie Speck of Tutu & the Pirates
Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators NYC talks to Little Richie Speck of Tutu & the Pirates.
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Betty Ford
The accidental Ford presidency put a nice guy in the White House for a couple of years and made a public figure of his wife. Her new prominence was a good thing for the country.
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Gerald Ford obits I can stand to read
Gerald Ford didn’t heal the nation, he slapped duct tape over an open wound.