Writings by Topic: History
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Publication |
Date  |
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| Fix the filibuster by bringing it back |
Arguable |
October 1, 2024 |
| Antisemitism and the power of the big lie |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 2024 |
| In the Calvin Coolidge fan club with Michael Dukakis |
Arguable |
September 24, 2024 |
| Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, H.W. Bush ... and Harris? |
Arguable |
August 20, 2024 |
| Into Kursk: the biter bit |
Arguable |
August 13, 2024 |
| Joe Biden's flatterers compare him to George Washington. That's ridiculous. |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2024 |
| JD Vance dismisses the American idea |
Arguable |
July 23, 2024 |
| Alas, Trump has already won on the issue of immigration |
The Boston Globe |
July 21, 2024 |
| Readers redesign the Massachusetts flag |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2024 |
| The solution to America's gerontocracy |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2024 |
| Jimmy Carter's post-presidency has been remarkable — with one exception |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2024 |
| How nostalgia warps our politics |
Arguable |
June 18, 2024 |
| Before there was Trump there was James Michael Curley |
Arguable |
June 4, 2024 |
| The law that ruined America's immigration system |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 2024 |
| Trump among the libertarians |
Arguable |
May 7, 2024 |
| Happy about your IRS refund? Don't be. |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2024 |
| The critics were right about 'Old Tippecanoe' |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2024 |
| Seiji Ozawa's love for America |
Arguable |
February 13, 2024 |
| Would Zora Neale Hurston celebrate Black History Month? |
Arguable |
February 6, 2024 |
| (No) fear of flying |
Arguable |
January 16, 2024 |
| Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2024 |
| The Boston Tea Party was a crime |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2023 |
| What Hamas can learn from Hanukkah |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 2023 |
| The inescapable conundrum of anonymous speech |
The Boston Globe |
November 29, 2023 |
| I used to defend Columbus as 'magnificent.' I don't anymore. |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 2023 |
| Are the abortion extremists Republican or Democratic? Yes. |
Arguable |
August 29, 2023 |
| Victory, not détente, is the right American strategy toward Beijing |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2023 |
| 'Our least abhorrent choice' |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 2023 |
| From the flood of 1927 to the flood of 2023 |
Arguable |
July 18, 2023 |
| Th Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" |
Arguable |
July 11, 2023 |
| What Frederick Douglass really said in his great Independence Day speech |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 2023 |
| Hypocrisy at Middlebury College |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2023 |
| Does Generation Z love Big Brother? |
Arguable |
June 13, 2023 |
| Middlebury College flunks a history test |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2023 |
| A brutal attack in the Senate chamber |
Arguable |
May 16, 2023 |
| The real origin of the Palestinians' catastrophe |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2023 |
| Cleopatra wasn't black. So what? |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2023 |
| No less than a miracle: Israel turns 75 |
Arguable |
April 25, 2023 |
| Which former governor should Healey hang? |
The Boston Globe |
April 23, 2023 |
| What's so special about matzah? |
Arguable |
April 4, 2023 |
| Is this how a new Great Awakening begins? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2023 |
| How the most qualified presidential candidate became America's worst president |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 2023 |
| The State of the Union should be a memo, not a speech |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
February 7, 2023 |
| The deeply flawed campaign for racial reparations |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2023 |
| The man in the olive green sweatshirt |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
December 29, 2022 |
| Patton's prayer |
Arguable |
December 6, 2022 |
| The Pilgrims' rabbi |
Arguable |
November 22, 2022 |
| The penitential presidents |
Arguable |
October 3, 2022 |
| Putin's phony vote |
The Boston Globe |
October 2, 2022 |
| 'We did nothing to prevent it' |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2022 |
| Elizabeth the good |
Arguable |
September 12, 2022 |
| Gorbachev failed. That's why he was showered with honors. |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2022 |
| The Munich massacre, 50 years on |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
August 29, 2022 |
| What Lincoln's secretary of state saw in Jerusalem |
Arguable |
August 1, 2022 |
| The Revolution was America's first civil war |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2022 |
| Overturning Roe does not make the Supreme Court 'illegitimate' |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2022 |
| 'Like hearing Lincoln at Gettysburg' |
The Boston Globe |
May 29, 2022 |
| For Putin, a self-own for the history books |
The Boston Globe |
May 22, 2022 |
| Is George Washington fit only for contempt? |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2022 |
| When Stalin and Hitler were allies |
Arguable |
May 9, 2022 |
| The Passover story is an American story |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 2022 |
| Sorry, Tom Cotton: Trump is no Reagan |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2022 |
| The 'Little Magician' who transformed American politics |
The Boston Globe |
February 20, 2022 |
| Arguable: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored |
Arguable |
October 25, 2021 |
| Will Bobby Kennedy's killer go free? |
Washington Examiner |
September 25, 2021 |
| Sirhan should die behind bars |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2021 |
| The eviction moratorium and the rule of lawlessness |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2021 |
| The very racist history of gun control |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 2021 |
| Harry Truman conned us all |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2021 |
| No ministry of culture, please, we're American |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2021 |
| The history of pandemics is a history of denial |
The Boston Globe |
July 18, 2021 |
| Lincoln was the best. Buchanan was the worst. What about the others? |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2021 |
| A Democrat in the White House? Cue the FDR analogies |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 2021 |
| Thirty seconds over Mars |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 2021 |
| Jim Crow was a horror. Don't trivialize it |
Arguable |
April 12, 2021 |
| Frederick Douglass takes on cancel culture |
Arguable |
March 15, 2021 |
| The racial decency — and irony — of Rutherford Hayes |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2021 |
| My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either |
Arguable |
December 14, 2020 |
| Why Beethoven still endures |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2020 |
| Biden promised not to pardon Trump. Maybe he should do so anyway |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2020 |
| The coronavirus curfews make no sense |
Arguable |
November 25, 2020 |
| If you love this country, Mr. President, concede defeat |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2020 |
| Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2020 |
| The Israeli actress and the Egyptian queen |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2020 |
| A plea for humility from America's first superstar |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2020 |
| Like the nation's founders, Americans say: 'More immigrants, please' |
The Boston Globe |
July 5, 2020 |
| 'Cancel culture' grows increasingly cruel |
Arguable |
June 29, 2020 |
| Statue-toppling, right and wrong |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2020 |
| The 'Great Pope' who changed the world |
Arguable |
May 18, 2020 |
| The pernicious Logan Act should have been scrapped long ago |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2020 |
| This too shall pass (over) |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 2020 |
| The Equal Rights Amendment died in 1979. Let it rest in peace. |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 2020 |
| A self-quarantine that changed the world |
Arguable |
March 16, 2020 |
| I'm skeptical about climate alarmism, but I take coronavirus fears seriously |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2020 |
| The president who was not a politician |
The Boston Globe |
February 16, 2020 |
| When Massachusetts was the battlefield in the war on Christmas |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2019 |
| The slaves of Nubia |
Arguable |
December 23, 2019 |
| America stood down as the Berlin Wall went up |
Arguable |
November 12, 2019 |
| A century ago, the science was settled: Immigrants had to be kept out |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 2019 |
| Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2019 |
| To Hell with Robert Mugabe |
Arguable |
September 9, 2019 |
| Abolishing birthright citizenship would be 'frankly ridiculous' — and profoundly un-American |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2019 |
| Statehood for DC? That's a nonstarter |
The Boston Globe |
August 11, 2019 |
| What to Frederick Douglass is the "Douglass Plan"? |
Arguable |
July 15, 2019 |
| George Washington was right about 'baneful' two-party politics |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2019 |
| 'Proclaim Liberty': How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America |
The Boston Globe |
July 7, 2019 |
| A grievous sinner, and a great American |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2019 |
| Presidents always leave when their time is up |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2019 |
| The banishing of Kate Smith isn't 'sensitive' — it's ridiculous |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2019 |
| Don't dump the filibuster — restore it to its former glory |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2019 |
| Reparations for slavery are unworkable — and unjust |
The Boston Globe |
March 31, 2019 |
| The Republican president who alienated Republicans |
The Boston Globe |
February 17, 2019 |
| As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2019 |
| Apollo 8's perfect Christmas message |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2018 |
| Columbus sailed the ocean blue |
Arguable |
October 8, 2018 |
| The White House handshake that made everything worse |
The Boston Globe |
September 5, 2018 |
| Why is a great Senate office building named for a modern racist? |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 2018 |
| No, 60 million abortions didn't make America richer |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2018 |
| From child refugee to Green Beret — to Congress? |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 2018 |
| 70 years ago, Mayor Humphrey changed the Democratic Party |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 2018 |
| Amnesty for 'Dreamers' is in the GOP's finest tradition |
The Boston Globe |
May 27, 2018 |
| The undeferred dreams of Elias Howe and Madame C. J. Walker |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2018 |
| The hack who repented |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2018 |
| Poland and Israel need friendship, not a bitter fight over history |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 2018 |
| Oprah for president — or for queen? |
The Boston Globe |
January 14, 2018 |
| The Mayflower Compact and the seeds of American democracy |
The Boston Globe |
November 21, 2017 |
| Let's stop taking the national anthem out to the ballgame |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 2017 |
| Above the Arctic Circle, a Cold War Rosh Hashana |
The Boston Globe |
September 17, 2017 |
| Why do presidents have unfettered power to pardon? |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2017 |
| From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2017 |
| When good things come from bad people |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2017 |
| The victory that astonished the world |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2017 |
| One of the best ideas in human history |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 2017 |
| Drag away the statues |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2017 |
| Thirty years of 'varsity academics' |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2017 |
| When presidents break big promises |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2017 |
| If Trump goes to war against freedom of the press, who wins? |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 2017 |
| An echo of Trump in the last of the Whigs |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 2017 |
| Pearl Harbor's uplifting lesson |
The Boston Globe |
December 18, 2016 |
| Is Thanksgiving constitutional? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2016 |
| A long way from the Chinese Exclusion Act |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2016 |
| Parties change. Not always for the better |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2016 |
| The Leave campaign of 1776 reverberates to this day |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2016 |
| A civil rights hero? Muhammad Ali was anything but |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 2016 |
| A terrible weapon that achieved much good |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2016 |
| The end of Holocaust remembrance |
The Boston Globe |
May 1, 2016 |
| The president without a party |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2016 |
| Does Hillary's résumé make her the 'best-qualified' candidate? |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2016 |
| State of the Union spectacle would appall Thomas Jefferson |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2016 |
| 2015 was an awful year? Look again. |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2015 |
| The right way to apologize for slavery |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2015 |
| Many presidents have known the grief of burying a child |
The Boston Globe |
October 11, 2015 |
| A Nobel prize for an ignoble deal? |
The Boston Globe |
July 19, 2015 |
| The Confederate flag is anti-American |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2015 |
| 'Declaration of Independence' preserves the patriots' faces |
The Boston Globe |
July 5, 2015 |
| The case for Israel is rooted in more than security |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 2015 |
| Iraq and the White House time machine |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2015 |
| When US troops left too soon |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2015 |
| The Armenian genocide was also a jihad |
The Boston Globe |
April 15, 2015 |
| The House of Tudor didn't get the last word |
The Boston Globe |
March 26, 2015 |
| Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today? |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2015 |
| 'I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free' |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 2015 |
| American to the core |
The Boston Globe |
January 19, 2015 |
| The antisemitic derangement |
The Boston Globe |
January 14, 2015 |
| Be less romantic about the past |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 2014 |
| Your strategy was wrong, Mr. President |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 2014 |
| Nixon: Painfully shy, but craving great purpose |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2014 |
| Marriage and the 'wrong side of history' |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2014 |
| Goldwater lost in a landslide – and won the GOP future |
The Boston Globe |
April 20, 2014 |
| The man who didn't want to be president |
The Boston Globe |
February 16, 2014 |
| When there was no going home |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2013 |
| When the joke was on JFK |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2013 |
| Would Democrats embrace a JFK today? |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2013 |
| When 'never again' turns into 'yet again' |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2013 |
| Words to transform the world |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2013 |
| Voting rights and the chains of memory |
The Boston Globe |
June 30, 2013 |
| King's 'Letter' and the law |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2013 |
| Abolition, word by word |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 2013 |
| Those endless, onerous presidential campaigns |
The Boston Globe |
December 26, 2012 |
| Grant's greatest regret |
The Boston Globe |
December 5, 2012 |
| Celebrating, royal-free |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2012 |
| For Elizabeth Warren, a story from 1984 |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2011 |
| Philosophy, faith, and the Fourth of July |
The Boston Globe |
July 3, 2011 |
| Who cares about US history? |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2011 |
| The myth of 'Herbert Hoover economics' |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 2011 |
| This time, don't betray the rebels |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2011 |
| Union 'rights' that aren't |
The Boston Globe |
March 2, 2011 |
| Commemorating secession, with sorrow and honesty |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2011 |
| Born in the U.S.A. |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2010 |
| Were the Founders hypocrites? |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2010 |
| The year the dominoes fell |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2009 |
| 'The most difficult first 100 days'? Not quite |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 2009 |
| The enemies of Jim Crow |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2009 |
| 'God bless all of you . . . on the good Earth' |
The Boston Globe |
December 21, 2008 |
| Missing from that Berlin speech |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2008 |
| These are (still) the good old days |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2008 |
| Pastor Hagee was, and wasn't, wrong |
The Boston Globe |
June 1, 2008 |
| A triumph of life and hope |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2008 |
| When Zola wrote 'J'accuse!' |
The Boston Globe |
March 30, 2008 |
| A city voted, and history turned on its hinge |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2007 |
| Truth and the Armenian genocide |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2007 |
| Why are we rewarding Iran? |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2007 |
| Man of science, man of faith |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 2007 |
| Six days to remember -- accurately |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 2007 |
| Look in the mirror, Jimmy Carter |
The Boston Globe |
May 23, 2007 |
| Ex-presidents' big payday |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2007 |
| Castro's true legacy is a bloody trail |
The Boston Globe |
January 1, 2007 |
| If we had known then . . . |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2006 |
| Has Israel lost the spirit of '76? |
The Boston Globe |
July 2, 2006 |
| Truman bounced back – and so will Bush |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2005 |
| A factory for death |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2005 |
| Iraq's Independence Day |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2004 |
| The triumph of Chanukah |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2003 |
| The death of American racism |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2003 |
| The blessing of private property |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2002 |
| Diplomats of uncommon courage |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2002 |
| 'Under God' |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2002 |
| Buchanan's blind spot on immigration |
The Boston Globe |
February 24, 2002 |
| The wit and wisdom of Bastiat |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2001 |
| Shrugging at genocide |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2001 |
| Remembering the 'wall of shame' |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2001 |
| Kennedy vs. Kennedy |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2001 |
| When Jerusalem Was Divided |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2001 |
| Why were the Pilgrims thankful? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2000 |
| Why we fought in Vietnam |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 2000 |
| The Holocaust deniers' real goal |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2000 |
| Man of the millennium |
The Boston Globe |
December 20, 1999 |
| Thankful for our immigrants |
The Boston Globe |
November 25, 1999 |
| The wall came tumbling down |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 1999 |
| Unpardonable acts of terror |
The Boston Globe |
September 6, 1999 |
| Empty campaigning |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 1999 |
| Down the rabbit hole |
The Boston Globe |
July 1, 1999 |
| A peace without honor |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 1999 |
| Return these exiles to Greece |
The Boston Globe |
April 1, 1999 |
| Kazan's lifetime achievement |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 1999 |
| Why we need a bigger House |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 1999 |
| The US suffered through turmoil in '98. That is, 1798. |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 1998 |
| What real hate speech sounds like |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 1998 |
| Still we sing: 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous! |
The Boston Globe |
September 24, 1998 |
| 75 years of underestimating Calvin Coolidge |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 1998 |
| American leftists were Pol Pot's cheerleaders |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 1998 |
| Not another honor for W.E.B. DuBois |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 1998 |
| A revolutionary Christmas tale |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 1997 |
| Christopher Columbus, hero |
The Boston Globe |
October 9, 1997 |
| Visiting Luhyna, revisiting a horror |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 1997 |
| At the right time, he did the right thing |
The Boston Globe |
September 2, 1997 |
| PLO propagandists rewrite Jewish history |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 1997 |
| Webster's diplomacy — and ours |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 1997 |
| A lesson from Birmingham Jail |
The Boston Globe |
February 25, 1997 |
| The deceiving of Madeleine Albright |
The Boston Globe |
February 11, 1997 |
| Lower the flag, South Carolina |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 1996 |
| The faith that links Thanksgiving and Chanukah |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 1996 |
| The founders' formula: faith and liberty |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1996 |
| A day of hope and courage |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 1996 |
| The vandals of history |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 1995 |
| To the victims of Communism: lest we forget |
The Boston Globe |
December 7, 1995 |
| Who is Bush to fault Clinton? |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 1995 |
| Enola Gay: Plane and simple |
The Boston Globe |
July 6, 1995 |
| Religion and the American idea |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1995 |
| Profiles in arrogance and failure, not courage |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 1995 |
| All the wrong moves in Moscow |
The Boston Globe |
May 4, 1995 |
| The Smithsonian still doesn't get it |
The Boston Globe |
February 7, 1995 |
| Light's victory over darkness |
The Boston Globe |
November 24, 1994 |
| The wrong target |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 1994 |
| Seeking justice for crimes of the past |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 1994 |
| Smithsonian drops a bomb in WW2 exhibit |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 1994 |
| The day the Nazis came for my father's family |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 1994 |
| Israel Needs the Demjanjuk Trial |
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
March 26, 1987 |
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Book Reviews |
| Book Title |
Publication |
Date |
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Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship
by Meir Y. Soloveichik |
Commentary |
October 2023 |
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
by Jonathan D. Sarna |
Commentary magazine |
May 2012 |
When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
by Gal Beckerman |
Commentary |
March 2011 |
Speaking of Jews: Rabbis, Intellectuals, and the Creation of an American Public Identity
by Lila Corwin Berman |
Commentary |
October 2009 |
Why Are Jews Liberals?
by Norman Podhoretz |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 2009 |
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