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mb-xs-3">“The amateurish nature of many of the first Trump administration’s encounters with the Supreme Court is highly likely to be replaced by a more disciplined and strategic approach.” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ben-tarnoff/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Ben Tarnoff</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/antisystemic-times-trump-ben-tarnoff/" class="hover-text-green">Antisystemic Times</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">“Large numbers of Americans have come to believe that their body politic is severely diseased. In Trump, they have found a man ruthless enough to inflict the remedy.” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/christine-henneberg/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Christine Henneberg</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/abortion-rights-christine-henneberg/" class="hover-text-green">On Abortion Rights</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">“I, like physicians in Texas, Idaho, and elsewhere, will be forced to turn patients away—not for medical reasons, not because I am not trained to help them, but because of moral decrees handed down by politicians.” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/aryeh-neier/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Aryeh Neier</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/rise-of-authoritarianism-aryeh-neier/" class="hover-text-green">The Rise of Authoritarianism</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">The triumph of Trump and Trumpism in the United States will add legitimacy to the rule of autocrats all over the world. </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/wesley-lowery/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Wesley Lowery</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/task-of-journalists-wesley-lowery/" class="hover-text-green">The Task of the Journalist</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">“Our highest calling is not short-term persuasion or immediate influence but diligent documentation.” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/susan-neiman/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Susan Neiman</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/nemesis-susan-neiman/" class="hover-text-green">Nemesis</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">“Will workers be served by a president who openly praises union-busters? Of course not, but Trump’s promise was to be their retribution, not to solve their problems.” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/michael-hofmann/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Michael Hofmann</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/words-without-consequences-trump-michael-hofmann/" class="hover-text-green">Words Without Consequences</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">“How can one not see through something so threadbare, so self-serving, so randomly and contemptuously thrown out by the self-adoring crooner?” </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/michael-chabon/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Michael Chabon</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/the-midnight-world-michael-chabon/" class="hover-text-green">The Midnight World</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all. </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/jenny-uglow/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Jenny Uglow</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/hallelujah-every-valley-handel-messiah/" class="hover-text-green">Hallelujah!</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">In his book <em>Every Valley</em>, Charles King explains the enduring appeal of Handel’s <em>Messiah</em> since its premiere in Dublin nearly three hundred years ago. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Charles King</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/regina-marler/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Regina Marler</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/the-cuttlefishs-play-playground-richard-powers/" class="hover-text-green">The Cuttlefish’s Play</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Richard Powers’s <em>Playground</em> does for oceans what his 2018 novel <em>The Overstory</em> did for trees: it implores us to open ourselves to the ingenuity of life beyond the human. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Playground</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Richard Powers</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/hammer-joshua/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Joshua Hammer</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/making-germany-hate-again-look-away-jacob-kushner/" class="hover-text-green">Making Germany Hate Again</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">In <em>Look Away</em>, Jacob Kushner draws a disturbing portrait of the white supremacist subculture that took hold across eastern Germany in the 1990s and now is making gains at the ballot box. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Jacob Kushner</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/carolina-a-miranda/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Carolina A. Miranda</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/intimate-theatricality-mickalene-thomas-all-about-love/" class="hover-text-green">Intimate Theatricality</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Meticulously installed domestic spaces set the tone for Mickalene Thomas’s current exhibition, which features the work for which she is best known: sumptuous portraits of Black women in repose—the artist’s mother, lovers, and friends. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Mickalene Thomas: All About Love</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">an exhibition at the Broad, Los Angeles, May 25–September 29, 2024; the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, October 20, 2024–January 12, 2025; Hayward Gallery, London, February 11–May 5, 2025; and Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse, June 13–November 9, 2025</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/karen-solie/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Karen Solie</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/the-barrens-karen-solie/" class="hover-text-green">The Barrens</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">a poem</div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/charles-glass/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Charles Glass</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/lebanons-year-of-living-ambiguously-charles-glass/" class="hover-text-green">Lebanon’s Year of Living Ambiguously</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">After the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah decided to draw Lebanon into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tit-for-tat bombings along the border with Israel overshadowed the country’s political and economic plight. </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ange-mlinko/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Ange Mlinko</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/the-shoals-of-prose-maureen-mclane-terrance-hayes/" class="hover-text-green">The Shoals of Prose</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Recent books of prose by two of our best poets suggest the importance of criticism to the development of a poet’s work. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">My Poetics</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Maureen N. McLane</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Terrance Hayes</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/martha-c-nussbaum/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Martha C. Nussbaum</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/reports-from-the-slaughterhouse-fear-factories-scully/" class="hover-text-green">Reports from the Slaughterhouse</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">A century after Upton Sinclair exposed the inhumane and unhygienic conditions of Chicago’s stockyards, life for animals in America’s factory farms and slaughterhouses is still gruesome. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Fear Factories: Arguments About Innocent Creatures and Merciless People</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Matthew Scully</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Timothy Pachirat</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/martin-filler/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Martin Filler</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/the-architect-who-unified-america-henry-hobson-richardson/" class="hover-text-green">The Architect Who Unified America</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">H. H. Richardson invented a practical, adaptable style for American civic architecture that was used for decades after his death. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Jay Wickersham, Chris Milford, and Hope Mayo</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/alexander-leggatt/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Alexander Leggatt</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/you-only-live-twice-shakespeare-greenblatt-garber/" class="hover-text-green">You Only Live Twice</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Shakespeare’s characters often navigate the dangerous possibility of a second chance. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Shakespeare in Bloomsbury</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Marjorie Garber</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/david-cole/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>David Cole</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/gender-affirming-care-the-courts-david-cole/" class="hover-text-green">Gender-Affirming Care & the Courts</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">The Supreme Court will rule this term on whether a Tennessee law denying minors treatment for gender dysphoria discriminates on the basis of sex. </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/joanna-biggs/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Joanna Biggs</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/a-very-quiet-symphony-the-hearing-test-callahan/" class="hover-text-green">A Very Quiet Symphony</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Eliza Barry Callahan’s <em>The Hearing Test</em> seems to be about a temporary loss of hearing but is actually one woman’s rehearsal for the losses that come, unbidden, for us all. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">The Hearing Test</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Eliza Barry Callahan</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ishion-hutchinson/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Ishion Hutchinson</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/snow-elegy-ishion-hutchinson/" class="hover-text-green">Snow Elegy</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">a poem</div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/rashid-khalidi/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Rashid Khalidi</span></a>,<br /> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/mark-oconnell/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Mark O’Connell</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/israels-revenge-an-interview-with-rashid-khalidi-mark-oconnell/" class="hover-text-green">Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">The scholar of Palestinian history talks about what has and has not surprised him about the world‘s response to Israel‘s assault on Gaza. </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/ian-tattersall/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Ian Tattersall</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/look-whos-talking-the-language-puzzle-steven-mithen/" class="hover-text-green">Look Who’s Talking</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">When did our first linguistic ancestor emerge, and how did the transition from a nonlinguistic to a linguistic state take place? </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">by Steven Mithen</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/winslow-yost/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>Gabriel Winslow-Yost</span></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-8"> <h4 class="mb-xs-1 text-xs-18 text-lg-22"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/19/as-you-like-it-choose-love-interactive-film/" class="hover-text-green">As You Like It</a> </h4> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3">Sam Barlow’s video games may be the first efforts at interactive cinema—by either a game designer or a filmmaker—that work. </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Choose Love</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">a film written by Josann McGibbon and directed by Stuart McDonald</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Her Story</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Telling Lies</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow and cowritten by Amelia Gray</p> </div> <div class="text-xs-16 mb-xs-3"> <p class="semi-bold mb-0">Immortality</p> <p class="mb-0 color-gray">a video game written and directed by Sam Barlow and cowritten by Barry Gifford, Amelia Gray, and Allan Scott</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-12"> <hr class="mb-xs-3 mt-0"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <div class="font-giza color-green mb-lg-2"> <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/john-j-lennon/" class="color-green hover-text-green text-xs-18 text-lg-22 font-giza mb-0 hover-border-green"><span>John J. 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