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Topic: 19th century

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for a photograph during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (ALEXEI DRUZHININ/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Does Trump want to carve up the world?

Andrew O'Hehir
An anti-abortion picket, with protestors holding placards reading 'Abortion Kills', 'Celebrate Life', 'Abortion is Murder,' 'Stop Killing Babies' and 'Baird: What's the Body Count at Your Abortion Mill Now?', with a sign for a Mobil petrol station in the background, picket a birth control lecture by reproductive rights advocate Bill Baird, United States, 13th August 1971. (Peter L Gould/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The crafted "evil abortionist" archetype

Margaret Jay Jessee - The Conversation
Samuel L. Jackson in "The Hateful Eight" (The Weinstein Company)

Trapped with Quentin Tarantino

Andrew O'Hehir
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant" (Twentieth Century Fox)

Leo's gory quest: Kill Wile E!

Andrew O'Hehir

Secrets of political marriages

Laura Miller
Anne Charrier in "Maison Close" (Music Box Films)

Life in a Paris brothel

Andrew O'Hehir
Hilary Swank in "The Homesman" (Roadside Attractions)

Tommy Lee Jones' new classic

Andrew O'Hehir