The city is trying to fix its notorious liquor license problem. But that’s just the start.
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Adolf Hitler wanted Paris razed. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted his troops to stay out of the city. In August 1944, an uprising by French resistance fighters forced the Allies to intervene.
In 1866, Congress wrote Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to keep ex-Confederates from power. Now the Supreme Court is weighing whether it applies to Donald Trump.
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A shortage of licenses makes for a system stacked against small businesses and Black entrepreneurs. Can it be fixed?
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It’s been five years since Massachusetts’ first recreational marijuana shops opened. All hasn’t been going entirely according to plan.
Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.
At South Korea’s border with North Korea, tourists gawk at the hermit kingdom — and ponder the countries’ future.
Our future waiters and hotel clerks still have a lot to learn.
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In 1974, Nixon aide G. Gordon Liddy was convicted of a rarely charged crime: contempt of Congress. Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon goes on trial next Monday, charged with two counts of the same crime.
Inside the high-tech quest to count the birds who signal climate change.
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Erick Trickey 