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  • Letters From an American
    Everything Has Changed, But Nothing Has Changed...
    June 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    In the past two weeks, everything has changed… and nothing has changed. Two weeks ago tonight, 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd was alive, going through his Sunday night as any one of us do, unaware—as we all are—of what the next day would bring.

  • Letters From an American
    Secreting Behind the Barricades in the "People's House"
    June 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Protests continued for a tenth day today in the face of ongoing police brutality. That statement is going to anger some readers, but hoo, boy, the images of the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists are going to be in textbooks in a few years, and our great grandchildren are going to ask how on earth this happened.

  • Letters From an American
    The Pentagon Says No
    June 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Military leaders past and present and all four former U.S. presidents condemn Trump's "troops on the ground."
  • Letters From an American
    Tear Gas and The Bible
    June 2, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Trump's Photo Op Backfires Big Time
  • Letters From an American
    The Lights Are Off in the White House
    May 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    In all this confusion, it feels like the lines are becoming clearer between those determined to reclaim fairness and equality before the law in America, and those determined to destroy civil society altogether.
  • Letters From an American
    Who's Agitating Who?
    May 30, 2020
    Outside Radicals, Incendiary Tweets and Shaky Facts
  • Civil Liberties
    Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America
    May 5, 2020
    | Michael Winship
    Today’s pandemic alters our tradition of protest and dissent.
  • Economy & Work
    How a Kansas Town Held off a Tyson Plant
    September 25, 2017
    | Twilight Greenaway
    Tonganoxie residents are the latest in a wave of rural communities standing up to Big Ag.
  • Activism
    “Paddle to Protect” Minnesota from Another Fuel Pipeline
    September 13, 2017
    | John Collins
    Young activists take a lesson from Standing Rock: Pipelines are a threat worth fighting against.
  • History
    How Bad Could Things Get?
    September 8, 2017
    | Todd Gitlin
    The late ‘60s and early ‘70s were crazy, but we’re looking wilder.


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