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SOURCE: Salon
5/14/2022
We're Facing the Results of the Dems' Retreat from Secularism
by Jacques Berlinerblau
By trying to match the Republicans on bringing Christian faith into policy, Democrats abandoned the difficult but necessary struggles to define how a diverse society protects religious freedom for majority and minority faiths – and those of no faith.
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SOURCE: Phenomenal World
5/12/2022
America's School Funding is Kleptocracy in Action
by Esther Cyna
The American system of funding schools largely through local property taxes contributes to inequalities both obvious and subtle that amount to legal dispossession of poor and minority students by denying them access to quality education.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/10/2022
SCOTUS is Enabling a Backlash Against Free Sexual Expression
by Rebecca L. Davis
The history of legislation aimed at suppressing "vice" shows that abortion is tied to other forms of free sexual expression. The last sweeping attack on sexual freedom took decades to reverse.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/16/2022
Calling Culture War a "Distraction" Mistakes its Meaning
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The right is fighting to make sure that one group's values are more influential than any others'. It's impossible to separate this from material politics, and the left needs to connect its values to changing the way people live.
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SOURCE: Observer
5/16/2022
Will Businesses Get Beyond Superficial Feminist Gestures when Abortion Rights are at Stake?
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Businesses have successfully integrated ideas about female empowerment into their marketing strategies. What will happen when women's status as both consumers and citizens is threatened by the rollback of reproductive rights?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/16/2022
Buffalo Shooting Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas
by Jesse Curtis
Labeling the so-called "Great Replacement" a conspiracy theory obscures how closely it hews to commonplace American ideas about race, nation, and who is entitled to rule.
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SOURCE: CNN
4/12/2022
Social-Emotional Learning Doesn't Have to be a Culture War Wedge Issue
by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Why are efforts at teaching empathy and emotional self-regulation being treated as left-wing indoctrination?
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/15/2022
Buffalo Mass Shooting Demands We Think About American Racism
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The gunman's manifesto shows the dangerous convergence on the right of anti-Black racism and a belief in white persecution. It also shows why the right is working so hard to fight teaching about racism in history classes.
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5/6/2022
The Roundup Top Ten for May 6, 2022
The top opinion writing by historians and about history from around the web this week.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/3/2022
The Losers of the Ukraine War? The Global Poor
by Rajan Menon
Refugee crises, inflation in the developed world, and constricted access to both credit and grain exports in the developing world are all likely consequences of the Ukraine invasion that will fall on the world's poor.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/5/2022
The Antiabortion Movement's Victory in the War of Language
by Jennifer L. Holland
The antiabortion movement was able to overcome American skepticism of enshrining religious views into law and demands by women for full citizenship by turning the language of rights to apply to fetuses. It remains to be seen if this language will lead to a national ban on abortion in the name of fetal personhood.
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SOURCE: Activist History Review
5/4/2022
For Deliverance: A Letter on Roe
by Riley Clare Valentine
A Catholic scholar and activist concludes "it is an act of love, of caritas, to reject the unjust undoing of Roe and to continue to help our neighbors who need access to abortions."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
5/3/2022
How Josephine Baker Challenged Racism in Las Vegas
by Claytee White
Josephine Baker's brief stand in 1952 didn't forever break the color line in the city's casinos and clubs, but it did help Black Las Vegans push for enduring change.
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SOURCE: Substack
5/3/2022
Republican Right is Forcing the Birth of the Society it Wants (and Most Americans Don't)
by Claire Potter
"Memo to radical conservative activists: despite your wettest fantasies, “libs” don’t cry at moments like this. We get angry, really angry. And we fight."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/5/2022
There's More to Cinco De Mayo than Many Americans Know
by Ruben A. Arellano
American Cinco de Mayo celebrations emerged at a time when ethnic Mexicans who were made Mexican-American by the US conquest of their homes looked to Mexico's defeat of a French imperialist invasion in 1862 for inspiration at a time when the Confederacy threatened to expand into the southwest.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/3/2022
Affluent White Parents Don't Understand the "Public" in Public Schools
by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz
Are parents' rights movements aimed at ensuring quality education, or at destroying the potential of public schools to support both learning and a democratic culture across lines of race and class?
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
5/4/2022
The Laundry Workers' Uprising and the Fight for Democratic Unionism
by Jenny Carson
African American and Black Caribbean immigrant women were key organizers of New York laundry workers who pushed for a union movement that rejected divisions of occupation, race and nationality in favor of workplace democracy.
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SOURCE: The Constitutionalist
3/3/2022
Judicial Leaks, 19th Century Style
by Mark A. Graber
When a Justice leaked a draft of the Dred Scott decision to James Buchanan, hoping the president-elect would cajole a fellow Pennsylvanian on the court to join the opinion as a non-southern vote, it was a non-story. Today the focus should be squarely on the substance of Samuel Alito's ruling.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5/3/2022
Leaked Opinion Shows Not Just the End of Roe, but Conservatives' Delight in It
by Mary Ziegler
The court's right-wing majority is clearly emboldened by the belief that the Republican Party and the conservative legal movement have its back.
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SOURCE: Wonkette
5/4/2022
Grandpa, Tell Us About the Division of Labor on the Hippie Commune
by Erik Loomis
Despite their grand countercultural goals, communes tended to follow a rigidly gendered division of labor.
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