Politics
Fact-free politics: Trump and the assault on truth
October 21, 2016Our government is under assault and our politics are increasingly freed from the pesky constraints of facts.
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More than tacos and tequila: The anti-imperialist history of Cinco de Mayo
May 5, 2016With all the fake mustaches and sombreros, it might be easy to forget Cinco de Mayo commemorates an 1862 Mexican victory over French invaders.
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Today in history: Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ ‘Night of Broken Glass’
November 9, 2012On 9-10 November 1938, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews took place throughout Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by the SS elite military forces, the Hitler Youth, and neighborhood gangsters.
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How the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution
February 3, 2010For us black high school students in the 1950s, it seemed like black people were always the victims. Greensboro was different.
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Health insurers worried sick over Michael Moore film
July 13, 2007Filmmaker Michael Moore, on July 6, sent out a copy of a confidential memo forwarded to his office by an employee of Capital Blue Cross. The memo, intercepted by a Blue Cross worker, was written and...
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