Tag: politics
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No really, Laurel Leff wants to know. This isnât a poltical-rhetorical question but something bigger. What are we to make of the presidentâs recent nod to Holocaust denial? We need to consider the matter in an open, fearless, and dispassionate way, but how? For those of us who teach and…
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Political cartoon: After the latest Spiegel cover and all the news it embodies, this cartoon by Sam Machado feels really good, particularly with its use of gender against the U.S. chauvinist-in-chief.
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German magazine cover with color drawing of Trump brandishing Liberty’s head in one hand, blood dripping down, and a big sharp knife in the other. Caption: “America First.”
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Quotation by Juliet Eilperin, Lisa Rein, and Marc Fisher from their Washington Post article, “Resistance from within: Federal workers push back against Trump.”
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I have been learning new terms these past months. Today it was âalternative facts,â which goes together with an older term, apparently repurposed for our current political and cultural momentââgaslighting.â I saw the latter term on a protest sign at the Womenâs March yesterday.
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Photograph of the full-page New York Times ad.
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Quotation: Garrett Epps’s shock in November 2016
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The following piece first appeared on my former teaching blog, History Survey, on this date, then moved to Clio and Me, before landing here. Do partisan politics have a place in the classroom? No. On the other hand, in a history class it is hard, even impossible to discuss many…
