Benjamin Franklin

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• 1/27/19
  

  Trump, Benjamin Franklin, and the Long History of Calling Immigrants "Snakes"

  by Geoffrey Sill

  Trump’s unsupported allegations that immigrants are “animals, not people” may find a popular reception among many Americans because the association between immigrants, criminality, and reptility goes back to a period well before the founding of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/19
  

  Why Americans trust technology but not science

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Benjamin Franklin understood that the two go hand-in-hand.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-30-17
  

  Benjamin Franklin Was America's First Political Leaker

  As leak accusations rock the White House, Anthony Scaramucci and Donald Trump should know that American politics' first major leak came at a formative moment—by a founding father.

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• SOURCE: dna India
  1-27-15
  

  Benjamin Franklin's life inspired me, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi

  "He was a politician, he was a political scientist, he was a social worker, he was a diplomat. And he came from an ordinary family. He could not even complete his education. But till today, his thoughts have an impact on American life."

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• 7-14-14
  

  This Founding Father Wasn't Always Loved

  by Thomas A. Foster

  Ben Franklin had a lot of sex.

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• 9-30-13
  

  Practical Wisdom, According to Messrs. Franklin and Emerson

  by Walter G. Moss

  In the United States today few of us value wisdom. This was not always the case.