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Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

Author Jason Pack presents Libya as a case study for global disorder

June 15, 2022 • by Sabina Henneberg

Pack uses the conflict in Libya as a microcosm for understanding global disorder, but asserts that the conflicts in Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, and eastern Ukraine could provide additional examples for his general argument....

Politics

The Big Lie

When the January 6 Select Committee chose this phrase to headline the second day of hearings they identified Donald J. Trump and his confederates as 21st century fascists

June 13, 2022 • by Claire Potter

The message from Republican politicians and their right-wing media flacks about the televised hearings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, which have now completed their second day? They don’t matter. “Nothing to see here!” they are all quacking, as they have ...

Activism

March for Our Lives Rallies on DC Mall

A photo essay

June 13, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Twenty thousand people rallied on the DC Mall on June 12 to denounce gun violence. Organized by March for Our Lives, there were major rallies all over the country, in contrast to one very large national rally by this group in 2018. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was one of many speakers in ...

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 ...