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February 18, 2025

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Red sky at Wilbur (2017)

Hagan Scotten’s poetic defiance

If journalism is the first draft of history, the reporting in recent days may have located the hours during which America slipped from being a stable, constitutional democracy to something other than that. Whether it is now an emerging autocracy or a kleptocracy, or portions of both, is a question t…

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