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There’ll Be No Escape for Bob Menendez This Time
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Supreme Court’s threshold for bribery these days is almost indistinguishable from a Thomas Nast cartoon. Corruption, in the justices’ eyes, is when a...
Historian: Save Ohio's kids from new Boss Tweed. Ed under Governor would be Tammany Hall
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEdward Janak is a professor of social foundations of education and chair of the Department of...
On This Day, Jan. 15: Disabled US Airways flight lands in Hudson River
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOn Jan. 15, 2009, all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot...
What Does GOP Stand For? Here's Why Republicans Adopted the Nickname
People via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Republican Party has used the GOP nickname since the 1870s Mark Wilson/Getty The 2012 Republican...
How Donald Trump's Plans Could Bring Back the Spoils System
Time via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPolitical cartoon by Thomas Nast (1840-1902), depicting William Marcy 'Boss' Tweed (1823 - 1878)...
Editorial cartoonists' firings point to steady decline of opinion pages in newspapers
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark...
What do the Democrats stand for?
The Week via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA donkey, the unofficial symbol of the Democratic Party. The United States fairly quickly developed into a two-party democracy, much to the chagrin of...
How the legend of St. Nicholas became the Santa Claus we know today
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSanta Claus, Kris Kringle, Old St. Nick ... Regardless of what you call him, everybody knows the...
Letters: ‘Doonesbury’ will be missed; free speech isn’t absolute; legislators are bullies
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 5 months ago‘Doonesbury’ will be missed I am saddened and disappointed at the decision to drop Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” comic from the Sunday lineup. For over 50 years, Trudeau’s trenchant wit poked ...
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,...