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Topic: Reagan

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

A history of immigrant treatment

Anthony W. Fontes - The Conversation
Winona Ryder in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

"Stranger Things" is not an '80s parable

Melanie McFarland
Ronald Reagan (AP)

Conservatives' pockmarked past

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP's noxious, misguided edge

Michael Lind
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Ronald Reagan (AP/Barry Thumma)

The Washington Reagans?

Elias Isquith
Ronald Reagan (AP/Jeff Taylor)

Lewis H. Lapham - TomDispatch.com
Demonstrators hold signs on the steps of the Pennsylvania Capitol to protest the state's new voter identification law. (AP/Marc Levy)

Brad Friedman
George Segal, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff Garlin in "The Goldbergs" (ABC/Danny Feld)

David Sirota
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Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings on "The Americans" (FX/Craig Blankenhorn)

Are the 1980s "period drama"?

Kera Bolonik
Chris Hemsworth in "Red Dawn"

Worst '80s remake ever?

Hugh Ryan
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