Several hundred people demonstrate outside the Hamilton Country courthouse in downtown Cincinnati, April 6, 1990, against a scheduled exhibit of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe.

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When America’s Culture Wars Were Fought in Art Galleries

What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters

The Divestment Encampments Don’t Make Any Sense

The Right’s Lethal Loathing of the LGBTQ Community

Is Doug Jones Doomed?

Moore’s the Pity: The Moral Horror of Alabama’s GOP Senate Nominee

The GOP Bears Full Responsibility for the Havoc in Virginia

The Closing of the American Mind

A Fitting End for Trump’s Gaudy Ballroom

The New Normal in Kyiv, Ukraine

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