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I thought of this poster last night as I read journalist Bill Shaner's account of the kidnapping of a woman from her neighborhood in Worcester, Mass. In video taken by Shaner and others, Worcester police hold back a crowd attempting to the stop the abduction by federal officers
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New platform, new subscriber options, and a new motto: “Time is neutral. History isn't.” Allow me to explain what that means to me, in two parts. First: Time is neutral. If you’ve been reading me for awhile, you know I’m big on busting the myth of
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More bias, background and the angel of history
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The day after Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, I was scrolling through TikTok, trying to figure out the coconut thing, when I was served up a supercut video from the Daily Mail. I know these kinds of videos well; as a video editor for The Washington Post during the
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Square dancing, editing and history.
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Girlfriend knows her tortured poets at 222 W. 23rd St.
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Nothing pricks a hole in the “it was so long ago, we’ve moved on” balloon like the meticulous preservation of the spoils of theft.
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Clean countertops, empty history.
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Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hey there! If I sent you this link, it is because I want to share with you something that changed my life. It comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He was in jail because of a bunch of super-racist white a-holes who loved oppressing
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The dead week between Christmas and New Year’s was always a banner time for Retropolis. Perhaps readers felt they weren’t too busy to read something historical and that may or may not have any relevance to their lives. In successive years, we got on huge traffic on this
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History is always biased when a human decides what gets included, and who gets left out.