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  • The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity

    The F-Bomb and the Age of Public Crudity2

    Let’s start with a question: Is anyone other than your correspondent sick of the public use of the “F-word”? Hollywood actors, celebrities, politicians, commentators, bloggers and those who comment on blogs sling the word around like sailors on shore leave. (That simile is probably unfair to sailors.) When I am scouting out the news online every

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  • The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’

    The Sad Death of ‘All Politics is Local’0

    Even before Justice Anthony Kennedy’s blockbuster announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court, it looked like the 2018 midterms would probably serve a nationalized referendum on Donald Trump. Against the backdrop of the migrant child-detention facilities controversy earlier this summer, and the contentious process to replace Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh, the “Second

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  • ‘I’ll Never Be the Same’: My Ukrainian Wife’s First Trip to the United States

    ‘I’ll Never Be the Same’: My Ukrainian Wife’s First Trip to the United States0

    KYIV, Ukraine—How do you measure America’s greatness? By the size of its economy, or the strength of its military? By the height of its city skylines, or the audacity of the moon landings? Perhaps, by the heroism of the Marines who landed on Iwo Jima, or of the Army soldiers who landed on Omaha Beach?

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