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History

Watergate Summer

In 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer’s determination to broadcast a Congressional investigation mattered to our democracy, and revolutionized television news

June 10, 2022 • by Claire Potter

In other words, alternative television showed government as it was, mainlining the excitement of democracy to a dedicated and growing group of political junkies. At the same time, seeing the investigation play out live provided reassurance that Watergate was a constitutional crisis but not, as Nixon characterized it, a plot ...

Politics

Jesus in a Cowboy Hat

A conversation with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez about why white evangelicals support MAGA politics

June 8, 2022 • by Chrisaleen Ciro and Kristin Kobes Du Mez

When the thrice-divorced, self-proclaimed billionaire, casino entrepreneur, and unfailingly crass Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 Republican nomination, his significant popularity among white evangelical Christian voters surprised political commentators. When their support carried President Trump all the way to the White House, Calvin University historian Dr. Kristin Kobes ...

Activism

Black Women Take Action for Voting Rights and Reproductive Justice

A photo essay

May 29, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Black Women Take Action took to the streets in front of the Supreme Court on May 25, 2022. Its primary focus is on Voting Rights. BWTA wants Congress to pass H.R. 1, which would expand voting rights and change campaign finance laws. The House passed the bill. The Senate blocked ...

Black Women Take Action for Voting Rights and Reproductive Justice

Capitalism

Capitalism Is Trumping Democracy at Home

During the Cold War, American leaders came to treat democracy and capitalism as if they were interchangeable

May 27, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet those who are supposed to represent us in government are unable, or unwilling, to do so? This is a central problem ...

Democracy

“I’ve had enough”

When are we going to do something?

May 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of ...

Politics

Jesus, Guns, Babies

Kandiss Taylor’s primary campaign for Governor of Georgia reminds us that Trump didn’t make the MAGA movement: they made him

May 24, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Kandiss Taylor, the Republican primary candidate for governor of Georgia that you have never heard of, has the best campaign slogan ever: “Jesus, Guns, Babies.” Talk about clarity on where she stands! She checks all the boxes. And although her central plank is the 2020 election conspiracy theory, she also ...

Europe & Central Asia

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

80 years of displacement and suppression

May 18, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

This year, May 18 commemorates 78 years since almost 200,000 Crimean Tatars were torn from their beds in the middle of the night and forced into cattle wagons. The Crimean Tartars, a Sunni Muslim Turkic ethnic group, have lived in Crimea since the Middle Ages. In 1944, accused by Joseph ...

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

History

The Blast

An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco

May 18, 2022 • by Joseph Matthews

Adding to the cannery women’s travails was their invisibility to—the willful blindness of—the city’s traditional labor unions. The women had no specific skills, the labor leaders would say when pressed, and did not fit any particular craft or trade union, so their requests to the central labor council for some ...

Europe & Central Asia

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

The struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion

May 17, 2022 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This text is thus a tribute to the struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion and to the people who have participated in it, now and in the past. Socially and culturally, the case of Lublin, with its many traditions and many contradictory policies, shows how ...

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

Activism

Breaking Through for LGBTQI Rights

Movements fighting homophobia and transphobia in Venezuela offer an example of organizing that successfully joins forces across ideological and partisan lines

May 16, 2022 • by Daniel Fermín, Richelle Briceño and Yendri Velásquez

We have to understand that the ones who are in these spaces are the ones who can create change, be it positive or negative....

Activism

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

The March in DC was one of the Largest

May 16, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 20,000 people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. for abortion rights. It was one of five hundred rallies of varying sizes around the country. Covid has discouraged travel, so people protest at home, which makes numbers harder to add up. Before the march, there was a rally on the ...

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

Europe & Central Asia

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

A conversation with Maria Matskevich: “People think it’s a peacekeeping operation”

May 13, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Maria Matskevich

People who give interviews and speak about a catastrophe in Russia project something into the future, and do not describe what is happening right now. The situation is very different in different cities and even different institutions. In Saint Petersburg and Moscow, you have more freedom than, for example, in ...