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Full Employment and Freedom
The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.
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David Stein
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Jacobin
on
May 25, 2018
Ford Says Farewell
America’s most iconic automaker plans to drive almost all of their passenger sedans into the sunset by 2020.
by
Telly Davidson
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The American Conservative
on
May 16, 2018
The Secret Life of Statutes: A Century of the Trading with the Enemy Act
What began as an effort to define and punish trading with the enemy has transformed into economic warfare.
by
Benjamin Coates
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Modern American History
on
May 16, 2018
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Inside the Band's Complicated History With the South
The Southern-rock group is much different than the one Ronnie Van Zant led in the Seventies.
by
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Rolling Stone
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May 15, 2018
The Hardest Job in the World
What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?
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John Dickerson
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The Atlantic
on
April 17, 2018
How the 1970s Shaped Trump's Vision
The one consistent message coming out of today's White House was born in the 1970s: Don’t trust any institution.
by
Julian E. Zelizer
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The Atlantic
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April 8, 2018
Immigrants Welcome*
Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: US citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.
by
Maytha Alhassan
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Boston Review
on
February 6, 2018
partner
How Tax Policy Made College Unaffordable
The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.
by
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
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Made By History
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December 21, 2017
The 1977 Disability Rights Protest That Broke Records and Changed Laws
The 504 Sit-In was the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in United States history.
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Brittany Shoot
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Atlas Obscura
on
November 9, 2017
The Small Business Myth
Small businesses enjoy an iconic status in modern capitalism, but what do they really contribute to the economy?
by
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
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Aeon
on
November 8, 2017
40 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1977
A visual trip back in time to 1977.
by
Alan Taylor
via
The Atlantic
on
October 16, 2017
Who Killed the ERA?
A review of "Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics."
by
Linda Greenhouse
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New York Review of Books
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October 12, 2017
partner
Ending DACA Isn’t About the Rule of Law. It’s About Race.
The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.
by
Christopher F. Petrella
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Made By History
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September 6, 2017
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How The Culture Wars Destroyed Public Education
The left's Pyrrhic victory in the culture wars.
by
Andrew Hartman
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Made By History
on
September 5, 2017
The Secret History of FEMA
The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.
by
Garrett M. Graff
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Wired
on
September 3, 2017
The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans
For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.
by
Josh Mound
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Jacobin
on
July 3, 2017
partner
The Executive Abroad
An interactive depiction of more than a century's worth of foreign travel by U.S. presidents and secretaries of state.
by
Robert K. Nelson
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American Panorama
on
June 27, 2017
How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong
And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.
by
Henry Olson
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Politico Magazine
on
June 26, 2017
Confederate History is American History
New Orleans shouldn't have removed its Robert E. Lee statue.
by
Quentin B. Fairchild
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The American Conservative
on
June 11, 2017
The Two Women’s Movements
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Nation
on
June 1, 2017
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