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It was front-page news on the January 14th issue of the San Francisco Chronicle that blacks by the tens of thousands have left the San Francisco Bay area since the 1990 census. Since my book Applied Economics analyzed this situation a few years ago, it was nice to see...Writers Guild of America on Strike
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Was the Civil War was unnecessary and Lincoln “did this just to enhance and get rid of the original intent of the republic.”?
The Legacy of 1968: Vietnam, Martin Luther King, and Campus Riots
This 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 is already starting to spawn nostalgic accounts of that year. We can look for more during this year in articles, books, and TV specials, featuring aging 1960s radicals seeking to relive their youth.
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