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Photographs of the Berlin Wall coming down, Al Gore and George Bush's presidential debate, Barack Obama's Innauguration, and Donald Trump as US President (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

A new decade: A new hope?

Amanda Marcotte
A visitor peeks through slats in the inner wall into the "death zone" at a preserved portion of the Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse on October 31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The Berlin Wall's fall, 30 years later

James Carroll - TomDispatch.com
(Fox News)

"I grew up with a wall"

Sophia Tesfaye
(Anna Ficek via Hyperallergic)

Timothy McGrath - GlobalPost
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O'Reilly demands Berlin Wall

Elias Isquith
David Gergen, David Gregory, Thomas Friedman. The Grand Bargain is revered among the Sunday Show set. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/AP/William B. Plowman/Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Elites keep ruining America

Michael Lind
Opponents of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi protest in Cairo, July 3, 2013. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Hang the elites!

Andrew O'Hehir

Michael Lind
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East Berlin citizens crowd the new passage at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on Saturday, Nov. 11, 1989, where East German border police had torn down segments of the wall. After the opening of the borders on November 9, East Berliners flooded into the western part of the once-divided city.

Janine R. Wedel
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Eric Boehlert

Charles Taylor
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Technology Log: Talkin 'bout a revolution:

Janelle Brown
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