When Upton Sinclair wrote that seminal muckraking novel The Jungle, published in 1906, he later reflected on its national impact thusly: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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A Streetcar Named Reform
The Supreme Court has (predictably) expanded police powers broadly, ruling broadly in a case involving strip searches and jail visits, to expand all police's rights to strip searches (including cavity searches) of anyone for just about any violation -- including, as Justice Breyer notes in his dissent, a traffic offense:...
The Me Generation, or Generation Text?
Look: when the Republicans of Iowa can't even count their own votes in their own private caucuses, having made it a national showpiece and with plenty of advance warning, I have NO expectation of normalcy or sanity in the aftermath of that
We Hates Them Meeses To Pieces
The "liberty cap" in the center of the Nicaraguan coat of arms comes from the American Revolution, which inspired countries all over the world to adopt the now-forgotten symbol of American Independence.
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