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Thanksgiving is a good time to lose our illusions about U.S. historyby Nick AlexnadrovWe misread the past each November, when we consider our country’s earliest phase. We like to think tolerance, a love of liberty and a democratic impulse motivated English colonists. But history tells a different story. |
Queer Like Peteby Jim DownsButtigieg is getting slammed for being a type of gay man America doesn’t understand. |
How to Talk About the Truth and Trump at Thanksgivingby Ibram X. KendiIf we are serious about bringing Americans together, the work has to start with our own families. |
Trump's Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Downby Kevin M. KruseThe lesson Nixon imparts to today’s POTUS loyalists is that courts of law and of public opinion will judge them harshly. |
Contrary to conservative claims, the ERA would help families — but it’s not enoughby Alison LefkovitzDecades after its introduction, the Equal Rights Amendment is still urgently needed, and passing it .may soon be possible. |
The apocalyptic myth that helps explain evangelical support for Trumpby Thomas LecaqueImplicit is a vision of the president as a triumphantly apocalyptic figure, one who evokes the medieval legend of the Last World Emperor. |
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Mattersby Brianna TheobaldThe fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day. |
It’s Easy to Dismiss Debutante Balls, But Their History Can Help Us Understand Women’s Livesby Kristen RichardsonThe debutante ritual flourished roughly from 1780 to 1914—beginning with the first debutante ball in London and ending with the outbreak of World War I. |
Après Moi, le Déluge...by Tom EngelhardtThe Age of Trump, the End of What? |
Trump’s xenophobia is an American tradition — but it doesn’t have to beby Erika LeeSome have always pushed to keep out immigrants, but people have always fought back, too. |