Rural Illinois may lack microbrews, but The Barrel Society in Princeton specializes in craft beers and whiskey. A small midwestern town was also home to an engineer who designed the modern sealed bicycle hub.
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A “Highly Qualified” Legal Analysis

Russell Lee / Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
In an editorial for Newsweek, John Eastman, a Law Professor at Chapman University, argues Kamala Harris is not eligible to be Veep. Continue reading A “Highly Qualified” Legal Analysis
He is mine
In the Spring of 1989, a fatwa by the Iranian Leader called for the killing of Salman Rushdie. During his first few months in hiding, he moved dozens of times. Could one of these hideouts have been my studio apartment in Hyde Park?
Rekha Recalls
Madison, Wisconsin in the 1980s was a great place for campus activism, but personal experiences around this activism were often complicated. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the Wedge Co-op was a little granola shop helping to start Minnesota’s organic food scene. In 2008, they purchased The Gardens of Eagan (located at that time not in Eagan but Northfield, MN) but then sold it in 2015.
Durenberger
David Durenberger served as Minnesota Senator from 1978 to 1995. He fell in the moderate middle of the Minnesota Republican Party,