Chicago PS
Clara Bingham’s recently published oral history, “Witness to the Revolution,” includes a chapter on the trial of the “Chicago Eight” (reduced to seven after Black Panther leader Bobby Seale insisted...
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The Straus Family Creamery
By Fred Gardner —From the Anderson Valley Advertiser September, 1994. The Straus Family Creamery...
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Me and Mr. Cohen
By Fred Gardner Jack Newfield was a Village Voice reporter, a Brooklyn Dodger fan, and a friend...
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August 2 We’ve seen stories buried before, but never so fast or successfully as “DNC Undercut Bernie,” which immediately got transmogrified into “Russian Hackers Defile Our Sacred Election.”Donald...
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That Was Now, This is Then
By Fred Gardner: Mischievous Hendrik Hertzberg emailed, “Have you seen my friend Clara Bingham’s...
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