America in crisis 
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7-23-17
America in Crisis: How Will We Get Out of this Mess?
by Richard Striner
Historical developments have been fooling the smart alecks since time immemorial, but here are different ways the future may unfold.
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7-16-17
America in Crisis: Both Parties Have Forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression
by Richard Striner
And that’s led to economic drift.
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7-9-17
America in Crisis: Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of Our Government Could Lead to Our Undoing
by Richard Striner
If in 2020 the winner of the popular vote for president loses in the Electoral College, the rage of the decent American majority will surge as it has never surged before.
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7-2-17
America in Crisis: Donald Trump Ascribes to His Victims What He Does to Them
by Richard Striner
Psychologists call this projection. It’s helping kill our democracy.
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6-25-17
America in Crisis: Is a Second Civil War in the Making?
by Richard Striner
People on both sides of the culture war believe that their opposite numbers “don’t understand what America is all about.”
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6-18-17
America in Crisis: Our Grotesque Predicament
by Richard Striner
The first in a series.
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- Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.
- 75 Years After World War II Theft, a Painting Returns to Italy
- Kruse and Zelizer: Trump Is a Symptom of an Age That’s Been a Long Time Coming
- Reginald Butler, Former African American Studies Director at UVA, Dies
- Duke Professor Emeritus John Herd Thompson Dies at 72
- ‘The Code’ Review: How Green Was the Valley
- Academics Respond to Wall Street Journal Op Ed Calling Academia "Sweet Racket"