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  • Letters From an American
    Human Rights Are Back on the Agenda
    March 23, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Human rights and democracy are high on the Biden administration's foreign policy agenda.

  • Letters From an American
    CPAC: The Big Lie's Megaphone
    March 2, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The purpose of this big lie is not only to reinforce Trump’s hold on the Republican Party, but also to delegitimize the Democratic victory. If Democrats cheat, it makes sense to prevent “voter fraud” by making it harder to vote.

  • Letters From an American
    To Count or Not to Count?
    November 5, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Remember: the fact that polling officials are taking time to count the ballots is a good thing, not a bad one. And there is no reason to think election officials are being anything but careful.

  • Letters From an American
    The Problem with Portland
    August 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump is clearly trying to change the national narrative from his disastrous response to the coronavirus and the economic crash to the idea that he alone can protect white Americans from their dangerous Black neighbors.

  • Activism
    A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism
    December 15, 2017
    | Kali Holloway and Martin Mycielski
    Rule #1: Always think critically and fight ignorance with facts.
  • Democracy & Government
    America the Banana Republic
    November 29, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Thanks to Trump the tinhorn dictator and those who elected him, this country is no longer a beacon of freedom, but a laughingstock.
  • Society
    Rethinking Higher Education in a Time of Tyranny
    October 10, 2017
    | Henry Giroux
    What kind of democracy is possible when the institutions that are crucial to a vibrant civil society are vanishing?
  • Democracy & Government
    Donald Trump's Addiction to Violence
    September 21, 2017
    | Henry Giroux
    The president has normalized violence by emboldening the idea that it is the only viable political response to social problems.
  • Society
    Trump’s Signals to White Supremacists Aren’t Dog Whistles
    September 8, 2017
    | Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery
    From Charlottesville to DACA, he’s following a pattern that we ignore at our peril.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump: The Anti-Gorbachev
    July 31, 2017
    | John Feffer
    While former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev supported democratization in his wake, Trump's sowing the seeds of autocracy all over the globe.


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