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Income tax form

Tax Time

Why we pay.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on November 19, 2012
Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker

The Lie Factory: How Politics Became a Business

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on September 17, 2012

Battleground America

One nation, under the gun.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on April 23, 2012

Birthright

What's next for Planned Parenthood?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on November 14, 2011

Objection

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on May 23, 2011
Drawings of George Washington

His Highness

George Washington scales new heights.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on September 20, 2010
Nurse checking the heartbeat of a Black woman.

Preëxisting Condition

American legislators have been trying – and failing – to achieve universal health coverage for more than a century now.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on December 7, 2009
The media fueled fears of a parrot-fever pandemic; then the story went into reverse. Illustration by Laurent Cilluffo.

The Spread

Jill Lepore on disease outbreaks of pandemic proportions, media scares, and the parrot-fever panic of 1930.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on May 25, 2009
Six-panel illustration of debtors' prisons.

I.O.U.

What replaced imprisonment for debt was something that has become a mainstay of American life: bankruptcy.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on April 6, 2009
Signing of the Declaration of Independence

Prior Convictions

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on April 14, 2008
Milton Bradley surrounded by colorful design

The Meaning of Life

What Milton Bradley started.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker
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on May 14, 2007
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