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Topic: Ulysses S. Grant

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Can Congress fix an 1872 mining law?

Blanca Begert - Grist
Portrait of American military commander and 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885) (Stock Montage/Getty Images)

The president who couldn't hear music

Matthew Rozsa
Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ex-president comeback? It's nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
Kevin McCarthy; Paul Ryan; Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Shutterstock/Salon)

Trump's complete hypnosis of the GOP

Matthew Rozsa
John Kelly (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

John Kelly's failed history — and ours

Chauncey DeVega
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind" (Loew's Inc.)

The Confederate mystique

Andrew O'Hehir
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Banning games isn't the answer

Elias Isquith
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Allison Jackson - GlobalPost
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Chomsky: America is broken

Noam Chomsky, Graham Cairns - Alternet
Rep. John Culberson, R-Tx. (Wikimedia/U.S. Congress)

Natasha Lennard