At a congressional oversight hearing yesterday, the attorney general followed her north star: pleasing the president.

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He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

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Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.