The New Republic

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KATE MICHELMAN is struggling to carry on a phone conversation without crashing her car as she barrels east across New Hampshire on her way to yet another campaign appearance with Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards. READ MORE >>

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In Dante's Divine Comedy, an imperfect order prevails amid the smoky chaos of the Inferno. The denizens of the Inferno dwell in their specific regions alongside others who suffer for similar earthly sins. As you descend through the progressively darker, murkier air of the nine circles of Hell, the population of each group of sinners decreases, while the evil of their sins increases. READ MORE >>

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Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic Process by E. J. Dionne Jr. (Simon and Schuster, 430 pp., $22.95)  The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office by Alan Ehrenhalt (Random House/Times Books, 309 pp., $23) READ MORE >>

"Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world."  —Hymn sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, Concord, July 4, 1837   READ MORE >>

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