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obituaries
July 23, 2024
James Fallows
The Reporter Who Made Us Love Politics—or Tried
Walter Shapiro’s journalism was bighearted, clear-eyed, and guided by a deep reverence for the whole operating-level panorama of American democracy.
February 17, 2021
Alex Shephard
Rush Limbaugh Made America Worse
The racist, sexist radio host played a pivotal role in injecting cruelty and conspiracy into conservative mass media.
October 9, 2013
Jed Perl
Stanley Kauffmann Tribute: How to Care About the Arts
March 8, 2013
Mike Madden
Adios, Presidente
What Hugo Chávez's obituaries revealed
March 1, 2013
Mike Madden
C. Everett Koop: The Man, The Beard, The Legend
How the obituaries remembered our most famous surgeon general
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