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  • Hardboiled Blues: Rethinking the Music of Rory Gallagher

    Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.

    September 5, 2025
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8 Surprising Fun Facts about Presidents and Sports

by Rivers Gambrell 1. Richard Nixon turned down an invitation from Esquire to cover Super Bowl VII President Nixon’s knowledge of pro football was held in such regard that the men’s magazine asked if he would pen an analysis of…

  • Kevin Worrall
  • November 1, 2022

Q&A with Mark Mclay, author of ‘The Republican Party and the War on Poverty: 1964–1981’

Tell us a bit about your book. My book is on recent American political history. It examines the Republican Party’s challenge to Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. It shows that leading Republicans – most notably President Ronald…

  • Kirsty Crosbie
  • May 11, 2021
Photograph of President Johnson at an NSC meeting in 1966. He sits in the middle with two men either side. He looks bored.

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As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.

  • Naomi Farmer
  • May 13, 2019

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