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fromwww.theguardian.com
20 hours ago

Yes, there are reasons to be cynical about Thanksgiving. But there's also turkey

Thanksgiving reflects historical whitewashing, commercial excess, and political discomfort, yet offers a prompt for gratitude and comforting traditions like cooking turkey.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

We shouldn't focus on how bad slavery was' says Trump. What's next? | Francine Prose

Apparently, the purpose of removing programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race or promote ideologies inconsistent with federal law is to present the American past as an unblemished landscape of positivity and perfection, to pretend that nothing wrong let alone evil has been done on our shores since our nation's founding. The point is to create a national identity that mirrors the president's own view of himself as a model of moral purity,
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