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Was Trump recorded using the N word? Plus North Korea’s most celebrated propagandist, the new power of poetry, and more.
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Trump and the Tape: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she “can’t guarantee” that Donald Trump has never used the N word, after a tell-all book by the former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman alleged he had been recorded using the slur. While the Trump presidency has been marked by public fascination with purported secret recordings, Adam Serwer argues that Americans

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