Tag: politics
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Link: “Trump’s authoritarian style is remaking America”
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Political cartoon from Puck about nativism in Congress in 1916. The cartoonist employs the metaphor of a fortress wall to make his point about a proposed literacy test for immigrants.
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Quotation about the “insidious destruction of our democracy by a bureaucratic samurai with the soothing voice of a boys’ school headmaster.”
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As a historian who sometimes teaches about Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I have to give Trump credit for one thing: His constant upending of the broad political consensus that emerged after World War II and the Cold War means that basic historical terms are constantly making it…
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Political cartoon of “Emperor Mussolini” on the cover of Simplicissimus in 1926. The caption reads, “I’ve decided to accept God, but he has to become Italian.” The German here for “accept,” “gelten lassen,” could also be translated as “allow.”
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I have had health insurance through my employer these past seven years, but I still depend on the Affordable Care Act. It has made the scope of coverage meaningful, especially by including so-called preexisting conditions. It has also relieved me of anxiety caused by not knowing if I would have…
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Link: One of many historians of Nazi Germany weighing in on the significance of Trump’s inauguration
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Sign at a local bookstore, Kramer’s, lambasting Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. “Bookstores: Your Alternative Department of Education.”