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Topic: Jesse Helms

Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker Carlson's yearbook problem

Zachary Petrizzo
Joe Biden, Dec. 12, 1972 (AP/Henry Griffin)

Joe Biden really hated busing in '70s

Igor Derysh
Robert Mapplethorpe (HBO)

How Mapplethorpe won

Scott Timberg
"Modern Family" (ABC)

They always lose culture wars

Stephen Prothero
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Bill Clinton (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Could Clinton sink Cuba deal?

Luke Brinker
Ted Cruz, Jesse Helms (AP/David J. Phillip/Reuters)

"The last nail in his coffin"

Simon Maloy

GOP's grotesque racist ads

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Danny Johnston)

Wingnut's racial resentment ad

Simon Maloy
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Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich (AP/Dennis Cook/Reuters/Mike Theiler/Salon)

How the right fought MLK day

David L. Chappell
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Janet Allon
Ted Cruz, Jesse Helms (AP/David J. Phillip/Reuters)

Ted Cruz's war on Repubicans

Brian Beutler
Ted Cruz (AP/David J. Phillip)

The GOP's Ted Cruz problem

Steve Kornacki
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Galifianakis: Liberal hero

Alex Sayf Cummings
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