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CNN's Democratic debate, night 1: Live updates

Twenty Democratic presidential hopefuls will face off at the CNN primary debate in Detroit. Follow live here for the latest.

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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States/2009) - Gordon S. Wood

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The Cold, Dead Hand of the NRA

The NRA may repair its finances—dues did rebound in 2018, though the recent scandal seems likely to reverse that trend. The organization may also effect a transition to a new leadership with cleaner hands. It may even survive relatively unscathed the inquisition of the New York attorney general. But the cracks have appeared, the aura of invincibility is gone. The Parkland students and their allies in states like New York have succeeded in opening a door to reform, and lawmakers are less afraid to walk through it. Whether this will reduce America’s annual toll of gun deaths—nearly 40,000 at the last count, of which three in five were suicides—is yet to be determined, but this much can be said: the era of NRA supremacy is over.

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There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations

Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.

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He Got Game (1998) - Spike Lee

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John Singleton: 1968-2019 | Balder and Dash | Roger Ebert

A tribute to the late, great John Singleton.

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We are (still) the 99 percent

Occupy Wall Street was seen as a failure when it ended in 2011. But it’s helped transform the American left.

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Exactly How Bad Is Trump At Making Deals? Even Worse Than You Think.

The shutdown stalemate highlights how the president’s strategies contradict best practices, negotiation experts explain.