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North Carolina Republican leaders sound resigned to the obvious: Given the evidence of absentee ballot tampering in the Ninth Congressional District, the subject of a state inquiry, a new election will likely need to be called. State GOP executive director…
The three-and-a-half-hour hearing with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the House Judiciary Committee wasn’t exactly a showcase of deep knowledge of technology. One Republican representative complained that all of the Google results for the Obamacare repeal act and the Republican…
Illustration by Cari Vander Yacht Cuco, “Sunnyside” There’s a dreamy, floating quality to Omar (Cuco) Banos’s songs that belies the turbulent, sad-boy emotions that animate them. “I’m a Cancer, bro,” the twenty-year-old Chicano from Hawthorne, California, told an interviewer earlier…
When my wife was a kid, in the early nineteen-sixties, she and her siblings listened, over and over, to records by Jim Copp. I knew nothing about him until thirty years later, when her brother copied a few of the…
In 1936, on a fairground on Chicago’s North Side, the popular radio host Father Charles E. Coughlin mounted a white grandstand that jutted out from a broad white wall—fifty feet wide, two stories high—to address an audience of eighty thousand…
