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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Eugene debs | History Defined

When the U.S. Censored a Movie About the American Revolution and Imprisoned Its Producer

Remembering the infuriating case of United States v. “The Spirit of ’76.”

Reason

Mamdani's Win Offers Terrible Temptation for Democrats

Rent freezes will discourage construction, government-run grocery stores are a joke, and free buses will become roving homeless shelters.

Reason

Zohran Mamdani’s writer on crafting a historic victory speech: ‘In New York, inspiration is everywhere’

The mayor-elect’s address pulled from Socialist titans, Astoria’s uncles and his rival’s father. Julian Gerson explains how the two collaborated on the ‘love letter to New York’

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Fox News pundit predicts Zohran Mamdani will soon start quoting 9/11 ringleader: ‘Give him time’

‘A blast from the past! Literal,’ Laura Ingraham reacted to her colleague Raymond Arroyo’s quip, prompting Arroyo to burst out laughing.

The Independent UK

Who Is Eugene Debs? Here's Why NY's First Muslim Mayor Quoted a Jewish Political Activist

By quoting Eugene Debs, a Jewish-American socialist, and Jawaharlal Nehru, a secular Indian nationalist, Mamdani signalled his pluralist worldview.

International Business Times UK

The Race for Last Place

We all know who won the presidential election. But who's bringing up the rear?

Reason

The presidential campaign of Convict 9653

On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the indictment of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump on 34 felony charges related to alleged crimes involving bookkeeping on a 7-year-old hush money payment to an adult film actress.

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Commentary: How Los Angeles’ first female public defender pioneered the rule that led to Trump’s indictment

Warren G. Harding was a terrible president, but he did get two things right. He freed an ailing Eugene Debs from federal prison, where Debs had been locked up for criticizing World War I, and he appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Los Angeles’ first female public defender, as assistant attorney general…

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How Third Parties Die

This is what it looks like when a political party's branches start to go their own way.

Reason

Even if Jan. 6 referrals turn into criminal charges – or convictions – Trump will still be able to run in 2024 and serve as president if elected

The criminal referral of Donald Trump to the Department of Justice by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is largely symbolic – the panel itself has no power to prosecute any individual.

The Conversation

No, an indictment wouldn't end Trump's run for the presidency – he could even campaign or serve from a jail cell

Donald Trump announced his 2024 run for the presidency on Nov. 15. In his address he railed against what he perceived as the “persecution” of himself and his family, but made scant mention of his legal woes.

The Conversation

Snowflakes, meet a real free speech hero

Socialist Eugene Debs stood up for freedom of speech and went to prison — and then ran for president from his cell

Salon

After Buffalo massacre, NY Gov. Kathy Hochul tries to justify censorship

Hochul is right that the Supreme Court has recognized exceptions to the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. She is wrong in thinking that “hate speech” is one of them.

Chicago Sun-Times

New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Constitutionally Protected Speech

In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.

Reason

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