### Marliss Desens

Marliss Desens

Professor Emerita; Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama specialist; reader; bread baker and cook; cross stitch and needlework enthusiast; committed to defending democracy

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 404. 6/23/26

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