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A Bulldozer’s American Dream

Poetry by Shangyang Fang

Hamilton’s Familiar Sound

By Catherine Provenzano

Men I Hate: The Stasi Men

By Lynette D'Amico

Chaos Theory

By Courtney Zoffness

Elizabeth Mitchell

Elizabeth Mitchell is the author of Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street and the White House (Counterpoint/October 2020).

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Essay Lit World Politics

In the Land of Fiction and Fake News

By Elizabeth Mitchell January 15, 2021

A lie is a fiction made up to take away someone else’s power.

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