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Week of July 2, 2012


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Up Front



Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica: Medicaid and the Eurozone Crisis: Beware the Wages of Sin

 


How Four Supreme Court Justices Misquoted Alexander Hamilton
Ian Mylchreest

On Topic: Fourth of July



The Declaration of Independence -- The Original Abolitionist Document
Alexander Tsesis


Reclaiming Beaches for the People on the Fourth of July
Andrew W. Kahrl

Channelling George Washington: The Missing Word in the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Fleming