George Romney 
-
-
SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
6/24/2020
The Republican Choice: How a Party Spent Decades Making Itself White
Talk of “election integrity” by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans.
-
-
SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/8/2020
Why Romney Marched
Former Michigan Governor George Romney practiced a commitment to civil rights and fair housing even at political cost.
-
-
SOURCE: Washington Post
2/6/20
How Romney’s vote to convict Trump paid homage to his rabble-rousing Republican father
George Romney forged ahead with his support for civil rights and against extremism, which at times pitted him against members of his own party.
News
- The Debt Ceiling Law is now a Tool of Partisan Political Power; Abolish It
- Amitai Etzioni, Theorist of Communitarianism, Dies at 94
- Kagan, Sotomayor Join SCOTUS Cons in Sticking it to Unions
- New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson
- Ohio Unions Link Academic Freedom and the Freedom to Strike
- First Round of Obama Administration Oral Histories Focus on Political Fault Lines and Policy Tradeoffs
- The Tulsa Race Massacre was an Attack on Black People; Rebuilding Policies were an Attack on Black Wealth
- British Universities are Researching Ties to Slavery. Conservative Alumni Say "Enough"
- Martha Hodes Reconstructs Her Memory of a 1970 Hijacking
- Jeremi Suri: Texas Higher Ed Conflict "Doesn't Have to Be This Way"