Fresh from Ellis Island, Stavros gets a job shining shoes at Grand Central Terminal. It is the last scene of Elia Kazan’s film America, America, the story of a young Greek’s fierce determination to…
— Read on time.com/archive/6724360/on-the-backs-of-blacks/

Over the last 8 years, a number of prominent members of the Republican party have come out to say how the current Republican Party is a threat to democracy. Some of these people have even left the …
— Read on www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/2/2250251/-Top-Comments-A-Message-for-the-So-Called-Sane-Republicans-Former-Republicans-Edition

if we don’t wrestle with anger, we never get to the heartbreak. And if we don’t get to the heartbreak, we dont get to the healing.

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Nixon ran on a platform that opposed the Vietnam war, but to win the election, he needed the war to continue
— Read on www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/

Nixon had sabotaged the October 1968 Paris Peace Talks for his political benefit, which delayed a U.S. pullout from South Vietnam until 1973
— Read on www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/12/2239229/-Abandoning-Biden-could-repeat-the-1968-mistakes-that-helped-elect-Nixon

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Moody’s found that after the financial crisis, from 2008 to 2013, companies owned by top private equity firms defaulted on their loans at about the same rate as other companies. However, in megadeals where more than $10 billion of debt was involved, private equity-backed companies performed much worse