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In a most entertaining piece for Politico Magazine, Jack Shafer observes that: “There is no more consistent political tradition in America than presidents delegitimizing the press. In 1798, against the background of a possible war, President John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts to criminalize his critics’ speech, notably that of newspaper and pamphlet […]

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