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Jackson (Andrew)

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Jackson Does Not Belong Anywhere on the Twenty

May 4, 2016 • by Daniel Walker Howe
I gladly welcomed the recent news that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the US twenty-dollar bill. At first I believed -- like many Americans, I think -- that Jackson would be expunged altogether. So I felt sorry to learn that the bills will continue to ...
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Why Obama is Responsible for the Debacle of his Presidency

November 3, 2014 • by Eli Zaretsky
Recognizing that there is a deep personal or individual aspect to Obama’s failure to seize the opportunity offered him in 2008 is a prerequisite for moving on. Without that recognition, we will remain trapped in the faux-progressive sludge of the Obama era, which tells us how hard it is to ...
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