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“Law are like sausages in that you should not watch them being made,” the German leader Otto von Bismarck observed in the 19th Century. And the truth of that observation is evident in the Steven ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two columns about the life of Thaddeus Stevens. The first was published April 24. After successfully defending a landmark free education bill in the Pennsylvania ...

To his congressional adversaries, he is a tyrant — “King Abrahamus Lincolnus” — and to his allies, a weakling: “the capitulating compromiser.” Thaddeus Stevens, the powerful chairman of the House Ways ...