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Trumpism Is the New McCarthyism

by Ellen Schrecker

Just as as McCarthyism did decades ago, Trumpism conceals the Republican Party’s long-term program to dismantle the public sector.


Nothing in All Creation Is Hidden

by Kevin Baker

Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump


The History of Lynching and the Present of Policing

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

A new documentary on Michael Brown comes just in time.


The County That Closed Its Public Schools Rather Than Desegregate After Brown v. Board of Education

by Arica L. Coleman

Brown has been under attack since it became law. That's why we need to know whether officials support it.


How slave labor built the state of Florida — decades after the Civil War

by Bryan Bowman and Kathy Roberts Forde

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.


Would the Founders want our kids to die in school shootings like Santa Fe? I doubt it.

by Jill Lawrence

Does anyone think they would expect us to live by a 230-year-old document?


Why hero worship is a mistake for the left

by Scott W. Stern

Their heroes – like Earl Warren – often have a dark side.


Obama’s Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed

by Andrew Sullivan

In one respect the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful. In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama’s two-term legacy.


A Thing for Men in Uniforms

by James Kirchick

The marriage of macho gay male identity and ultra-reactionary politics.


Where are all the revolutionaries of 1968? They’re long gone.

by Martin Kettle

Fifty years ago, hundreds of thousands marched in Paris. But the political and economic changes they called for never came.