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'Hamilton' author Ron Chernow's new book takes on an icon of American letters, Mark Twain

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant

The Independent UK

White House Christmas ornament honors 150 years of culinary diplomacy practiced at state dinners

This year's official White House Christmas ornament honors more than 150 years of culinary diplomacy practiced at state dinners

The Independent UK

The supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling mocks the rule of law

Citizens must make this presidential election about rescuing our democracy from authoritarianism

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Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

After the civil war, Klansmen were prosecuted – and Confederate traitors forced from office – by the same laws Trump has now run afoul of

The Guardian - US

Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

Historian Fergus Bordewich salutes the civil war general turned 18th president for his attempt to reconstruct the south

The Guardian - US

A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump

In the indictment against former President Donald Trump and his role in the Jan. 6 violent attack against the U.S. Capitol, special prosecutor Jack Smith charged the former president with violating four different federal laws – and Trump pleaded not guilty to each one of them on Aug. 3, 2023.

The Conversation

Donald Trump isn't first ex-president to face legal trouble

Donald Trump isn't the first president, in or out of office, to be in legal trouble

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Galloping Grant: the day a sitting president of the US was arrested

President Ulysses S Grant’s penchant for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage landed him in trouble with police in 1872

The Guardian - US

Commentary: When the chief justice himself was the Supreme Court leak

Six months of investigation, interviews with 97 employees, and meticulous forensic examination of computers and cellphones have failed to identify the person who, in May 2022, leaked a draft opinion in a Supreme Court case that would ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade and a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

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