Trump

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• 7/7/2020
  

  Trump's July 3rd Speech at Mt. Rushmore Invokes a Culture War

  Trump's speech defended cultural memory informed by the Confederacy and warned that leftist "fascists" seek to destroy America. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/3/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Test Is Too Hard for Trump

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president joins Herbert Hoover and James Buchanan as a leader who failed when it mattered most.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3/16/2020
  

  Before Trump’s Inauguration, a Warning: ‘The Worst Influenza Pandemic Since 1918'

  In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3/9/2020
  

  How Trump's Handling of the Coronavirus Compares to Past Crises

  Historians Julian Zelizer and Douglas Brinkley evaluate President Trump's decision to use the coronavirus for political ends.

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• 3/1/2020
  

  What Mussolini and Hitler's Rise to Power Can Teach Us about Opposing Trump: Unite, Unite!

  by Walter G. Moss

  The luxury of voting third party or not voting at all is no longer a sensible option for anyone wishing for a USA we can cherish.   

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/25/20
  

  Why Religion Is the Best Hope Against Trump

  by Jon Meacham

  Evangelicals may support an amoral president. But faith can still offer hope for liberation and progress.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/20
  

  Historians Must Contextualize the Election For Voters

  by Joanne B. Freeman

  Historian Joanne B. Freeman explains why this information is crucial for getting the election right.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/23/20
  

  How “Historic” Are We? Going Off-Script in the Age of Trump

  by Andrew Bacevich

  Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days. Just about anything that happens at the White House, for example, is deemed historic. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/20
  

  Trump loves ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Historians, not so much.

  As has happened fairly regularly during the Trump administration, historians on Twitter expressed their displeasure after Trump praised Gone with the Wind.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/24/20
  

  President Trump's Take on Parasite Echoes an Old Debate Over the Role of Non-American Films at the Oscars

  Parasite was in fact the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture, but Hamlet, starring Laurence Olivier, was the first non-American film to win Best Picture, in 1949.

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• 2/23/20
  

  Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Has he kept this promise?

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2/19/20
  

  Trump and the Christians: Evangelical historian John Fea on decoding the great paradox

  Historian and author of "Believe Me" on his struggle to reach the embattled evangelicals who oppose Trump.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/18/20
  

  “The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  2/15/20
  

  Can Donald Trump Avoid a War with Iran? History Tells Us To Worry.

  by Lawrence J. Korb

  The last thing our military personnel and the country needs is another Vietnam or another unwinnable war in the Middle East. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/16/20
  

  Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat Quoted in Washington Post Article on Trump's Quest to Rewrite History

  ‘Something has to be done’: Trump’s quest to rewrite history of the Russia probe.

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• 2/16/20
  

  Why Trump Is Different than Reagan, Either Bush, Dole, McCain, or Romney—He’s Evil

  by Water G. Moss

  Like Trump’s six previous Republican presidential candidates (and like many Trump supporters), all of the major 2020 Democratic candidates are decent human beings. Trump is evil.

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• 2/16/20
  

  A Gallon of Talk and a Teaspoon of Action, Then Label the Problem "Insolvable" and Plan Another Conference

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  What shall it avail, the latest speech-laden conference on this topic, when seventy-five years of intensive Holocaust education had no effect on Holocaust deniers and could not stop the resurgence of the virulent anti-Semitism that had infected Germany one hundred years ago?

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• 2/16/20
  

  “Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

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• 2/13/20
  

  The Travesty of the Century

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  Whereas the US has over the years played a central role in the effort to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, no American administration has provided such a detailed proposal, certainly not one that grants Israel all of its wish list.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/13/20
  

  Donald Trump’s continued assault on government workers betrays American farmers

  by Louis A. Ferleger

  Government scientists made U.S. agriculture powerful, but Trump administration cuts could undermine it.