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Power and Policing in New York City

How the NYPD and its conservative allies have used fear and race baiting to curtail attempts to limit policing power in the city.
by Willie Mack via Black Perspectives on April 18, 2020

The Long History of the Hand-Washing Gender Gap

Women are slightly better at hand-washing than men. Here’s one theory for why.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 15, 2020
A crowd at an Industrial Workers of the World rally in New York in 1914.
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Why the Massacre at Centralia 100 Years Ago is Critically Important Today

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.
by Steven C. Beda via Made By History on November 9, 2019

When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
by Adam Hochschild via The New Yorker on November 4, 2019
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Fear Itself

We're not generally at our best when frightened. It's no surprise, then, that some of the ugliest episodes in American history (but also, some pretty great films) have been driven by fear.
Juvenile in handcuffs
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Combating the Myth of the Superpredator

In the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of “superpredators.”
via Retro Report on October 30, 2019
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What the LAPD Recruitment Ad on Breitbart Says About the Department’s History

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.
by Max Felker-Kantor via Made By History on October 9, 2019

Detained

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.
by Emily Kassie via The Marshall Project on September 24, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.
by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 2019
Black and white image of Alice Paul, broadcasting from her desk at the Capitol, 1923.

Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century

Passage of the ERA seemed like a sure thing. So why did it fail to become law?
by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on November 26, 2018
Woman gets help filling out voter registration form.
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Voter Fraud Isn’t a Problem in America. Low Turnout Is.

For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.
by Allan J. Lichtman via Made By History on October 22, 2018
Anti-Catholic riot in Philadelphia in 1844

Lewis Levin Wasn't Cool

The first Jewish member of Congress was a virulent nativist and anti-immigration troll who ended his life in an insane asylum.
by Zachary M. Schrag via Tablet on October 22, 2018
A mother pushes a child, on a swing at the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, May 28, 1981.

The 1992 Horror Film That Made a Monster Out of a Chicago Housing Project

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.
by Ben Austen via Zócalo Public Square on August 17, 2018

We’re Never Going to Get Our “Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir?” Moment

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 26, 2018
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The Wildfire That Burned Yellowstone and set off a Media Firestorm

30 years ago, it was a huge fire in Yellowstone National Park that stoked media attention and political controversy.
via Retro Report on July 9, 2018
Elvis Presley performing to a crowd of fans reaching toward him

How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll

Rock music owes much of its claim to coolness to the Christian faith.
by David Hajdu via Public Books on June 21, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.
by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018
Black and white photograph of workers of various affiliations march together at a 1946 May Day parade in New York City, holding signs about "world labor unity."

Welcome to Operation Dixie, the Most Ambitious Unionization Attempt in the U.S.

Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail.
by Meagan Day via Medium on May 8, 2018

Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision

"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.
by Sophie Pinkham via The Nation on May 3, 2018

The Dangerous Economics of Racial Resentment During World War II

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.
by Gwynn Guilford via Quartz on February 13, 2018

Bad Boys

How “Cops” became the most polarizing reality TV show in America.
by Tim Stelloh via The Marshall Project on January 22, 2018

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers

Today's headlines evoke the the racist and hate filled headlines of KKK publications.
by Andrew Kahn, Rebecca Onion, Peter A. Shulman via Slate on September 14, 2017

'The Fatal Deadfall of Abolition'

Threatening the newly-freed Southern slaves.
by John F. Ptak via JF Ptak Science Books on July 31, 2017

On Health Care, History is Watching. And it’s Watching Four Senators in Particular.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.
by E. J. Dionne Jr. via Washington Post on July 16, 2017

The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
by A. Roger Ekirch via Longreads on March 28, 2017
Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn during the Army-McCarthy hearings.

The Ugly History Behind Trump’s Attacks on Civil Servants

President Trump’s criticisms of government workers have something in common with Joe McCarthy’s.
by Landon Storrs via Politico Magazine on March 26, 2017
African American women factory workers in heavy industry.

Lessons From the Fake News Pandemic of 1942

The South couldn't stop the rumors. Can we?
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on March 12, 2017
Migrant women and children
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Never Never Land

The legacy of Operation Pedro Pan, a plan to save Cuban children from communist indoctrination by leaving their families and resettling in the United States.
via BackStory on October 2, 2015
Photo of American dollar bills, worth one hundred each, in a darkened room.

Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda

Three years ago, a Supreme Court case, the U.S. Census, and anti-Obama backlash set the course for the assault on women's fundamental freedoms.
by Adele M. Stan via Rewire on November 5, 2013

How The 'Pox' Epidemic Changed Vaccination Rules

During the 1898-1904 pox epidemic, public health officials and policemen forced thousands of Americans to be vaccinated against their will.
by Fresh Air via NPR on April 5, 2011
Mel and Norma Gabler.

The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not

Textbook watchdogs Mel and Norma Gabler are good, sincere, dedicated people, who just may be destroying your child’s education.
by William Martin via Texas Monthly on November 1, 1982

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