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Lindsey Graham’s death leaves South Carolina confronting complex legacy: ‘You loved him and you hated him’

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The South Carolina state house is a microcosm of the US's contradictions. Outside there are memorials to the Confederate war dead and African American history. Below a statue of Strom Thurmond, a longtime US senator and racial segregationist, are the names of his five children including Essie Mae, whose mother, a Black maid, was 15 when Thurmond impregnated her.
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‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars

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Wojnarowicz emerges as an important player in Butler’s new book, The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America’s Culture Wars, a study of how the newly ascendant religious right pivoted from the cold war in the late 1980s to wage a domestic battle over contemporary art. It has earned praise from the actor of Ethan Hawke as a “scrupulously researched and blissfully told … gonzo history of American art and attrition”.
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Lindsey Graham tributes from Israel and Ukraine point to complicated, often bloody legacy

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It was revealing that one of the first tributes to Lindsey Graham, a US senator who died on Saturday aged 71, came from Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's national security minister, a far-right provocateur who recently caused widespread anger by sharing footage of himself taunting bound activists who had been trying to sail to Gaza with aid.
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