Free admission to our national parks on MLK’s birthday has been canceled. Free admission on Trump’s birthday has replaced it.
Architecture
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Trump Seeks Monument to Self, Gold Preferred. Here’s My Idea.
Nothing would better become him, and our times, than a Golden Calf, crowned with his own head.
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The Smaller Trump Outrages
Today on TAP: In Trump’s march to dictatorship, the lesser outrages almost get lost. His presidency signals the cheapening of America.
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L.A.: Home to More Homeless Than Anyplace Else
Today on TAP: The resistance to affordable housing in Los Angeles
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April 16, 2019
Notre Dame: God must be very angry at Her children. I am neither a Catholic nor any sort of believer, but my first reaction to seeing Notre Dame in flames, oddly, was that God must be very disappointed in us, Her children. This is doubly weird, since the God I imagined was a vindictive Old […]
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Can Private Capital Save Public Housing? (Tenants Have Their Doubts)
It could be more cost-effective to just appropriate more direct funds to the program and keep it in the public sector, but Congress is not about to do so.
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A Hard Days Night and Beatlemania: The West’s Last Outbreak of Optimism Disease
How much the Beatles helped create the ’60s and how much the ’60s helped create the Beatles is one of the great chicken-and-egg questions.
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New Treasure in Maine
The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision.
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Obama Wins the Future
On Tuesday, the most diverse coalition in American history re-elected a president—and announced the arrival of an emerging liberal majority.
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Handicapping the Marriage-Equality Initiatives
Even if we lose all four ballot battles today, we’re winning the war.