Pop Culture Roundup: This Week This Week: The Titanic, Elvis and Nixon, Shakespeare, Harriet Tubman, and lots more!

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Top 7 ways Harriet Tubman is the most Badass Spy & Warrior ever to grace US Currency by Juan Cole That’s right. She was Jane Bond in the mid-19th century.

Avenging Angels by Rick Perlstein The New York Values that Shaped Donald Trump

When First Ladies Played Offense by Kate Andersen Brower Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump have nothing on the Lady Bird Special.

Ripples From a Protest Past by Ian Wilhelm In 1969, an armed occupation by black students roiled Cornell’s campus. Here’s why it still matters today.

Bernie Sanders thinks the Democratic primary process ‘distorts reality.’ by Boris Heersink Does history back this up?

The Strange History of Empowerment by Steven M. Gillon The history of empowerment is that liberals and conservatives have transformed a potent concept of social change into a meaningless euphemism.

Where did the BDS movement originate? by Lee Kaplan The movement grew out of the Arab League boycott of Israel begun in 1950 after Israel’s War of Independence.

“The Dangers of a Fake Tubman Quote,” by Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel by W. Caleb McDaniel The trouble with the quote was that Tubman never said it.

Free trade is once again tearing apart the Republican Party by Marc-William Palen Free trade has become the Republican elephant in the room, thanks to Donald Trump.

This Article Is Not About Donald Trump by Tom Engelhardt (And If You Believe That, You’ll Believe Anything)