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LIVE BLOG: Both Lawson and Houck’s attorneys call Commonwealth’s case ‘witch hunt’
Her boyfriend at the time, Brooks Houck, and Joseph Lawson, one of Houck’s employees, are on trial for her presumed ...
‘Witch hunt’: Trump slams Netanyahu’s corruption case, adding to an ugly pattern
There’s a through line between the president's pardons, his intervention in Marine Le Pen’s scandal, and his intervention in ...
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Perspective | No, there is no witch hunt against powerful men
These witch hunts were, at their core, expressions of power and fear orchestrated by the church, the state and the social hierarchy that dominated their society.
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Review: 'Witch Hunt' artists consider feminism in the Trump era - Los Angeles Times
On view in Los Angeles, 'Witch Hunt' considers what it means to be feminist in an era when old binaries have collapsed, opening up new paths.
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Going on a witch hunt in India is real and deadly - USA TODAY
BHILWARA, India — "Going on a witch hunt" is a custom many in India observe — and for those hunted it can be deadly. Just ask Ramkanya Devi, 80, who still lives in fear three months after a ...
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Five of the most common myths about ‘witch hunts’
During the 1692-93 witch panics in and around Salem, Mass., 14 women and five men were executed by colonial authorities. Because these events often show up in American plays, films and works of ...
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What’s the ‘greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history’? We asked the experts - Los Angeles Times
Political witch hunts in the U.S. date back to the early days of the republic, the experts said. Advertisement “Jacksonians attacked [President] John Quincy Adams for buying a billiard table, ...