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How Donald Trump's Plans Could Bring Back the Spoils System
Time via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoPolitical cartoon by Thomas Nast (1840-1902), depicting William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed (1823 - 1878)...
Firefighters, a mansion party and racist tweets: What's going on in Rochester?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA firefighter in Rochester, New York, who said his captain took him to a racist party while on duty...
New Boss/Old Boss
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: New House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) is amusingly pursuing the exact same...
A 19th Century Case That Holds a Lesson for the Trump Trials
Time via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoHistorical illustration of the arraignment of Boss Tweed in courtroom. 1872. Credit - Getty...
Historian: Save Ohio's kids from new Boss Tweed. Ed under Governor would be Tammany Hall
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEdward Janak is a professor of social foundations of education and chair of the Department of...
The Biden-Trump Rematch May Mark the End of an Era
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThen President Donald Trump, right, and Joe Biden, then the Democratic presidential nominee, during the U.S. presidential debate at Belmont University in...
Voices: The A to Z of Brexit being done
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne of my favourite cartoons is by Morten Morland from three years ago, depicting Boris Johnson with a live turkey, a Christmas tree wrapped in a net and...
Sellout! How political corruption shaped an American insult
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoAlf Bruseth, 'Politician Coin Bank' (1938). Index of American Design If you follow politics, sports,...
ANTIFA, Jan. 6: How Jeff Hales brings right-wing views into Vanderburgh Co. sheriff race
The Courier & Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEVANSVILLE — Jeff Hales is a Christian conservative who happened to be a police officer. That’s how the Republican candidate for Vanderburgh County sheriff described himself in 2021 when he ...
History: Cartoonist Jimmy Swinnerton found new life in Palm Springs
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Jimmy Swinnerton came to the desert to die in peace – and found so much beauty to paint that he crossed up the doctors and got well.” Fellow artist John Hilton so summarized Swinnerton’s introduction ...
