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Letters from an American – January 6, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 6, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 06, 2026 “They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J. Trump said today to House Republicans. “I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because…
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Changing the Smithsonian doesn’t erase slavery and the racial wealth gap – The Washington Post
Changing the Smithsonian doesn’t erase slavery and the racial wealth gap There isn’t enough museum space to represent the full extent of the brutality that millions had to endure. August 22, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT, Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EDT, 5 min Column by Michelle Singletary The legacy of slavery — and the decades…
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Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar – The New York Times
Opinion, Michelle Goldberg Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar Aug. 15, 2025 Listen to this article · 5:32 min Learn more By Michelle Goldberg, Opinion Columnist Before Poland’s illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust. In…
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Trump has weaponized the government to replace ‘wokeness’ with his version of diversity | CNN Politics
Politics• 5 min read Trump has weaponized the government to replace ‘wokeness’ with his version of diversity Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, Updated 11 hr ago A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It’s not news that the government is…
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A federal judge’s ruling on ICE raids in Los Angeles should be required reading – MSNBC
U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong refused to be deceived by the administration’s smoke and mirrors. July 14, 2025, 2:47 PM PDT By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College Los Angeles is a city under attack. Spurred on by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s…
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy – The Guardian
Just over an hour into Elon Musk’s last appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the billionaire brought up the latest existential threat to trouble him. “We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said. “And it’s like, I believe in empathy. Like, I think you should care about other people, but you need to have empathy…
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’ – Associated Press (AP) – March 27, 2025
Politics Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Updated 6:45 PM PDT, March 27, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper…
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Trump wants to undo all kinds of race and gender progress. Here’s what stands in his way – Los Angeles Times (paywall)
Voices By Robin Abcarian, Columnist, March 9, 2025 3 AM PT The Trump administration is hell-bent on “restoring” this country to an entirely fictional time when white people succeeded based purely on merit, people of color got ahead solely because of affirmative action and women understood that they were the inferior sex. Trump’s hostility to…
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Education Department letter threatens federal funding of any school that considers race in most aspects of student life | CNN Politics
Source Links: Education Department letter threatens federal funding of any school that considers race in most aspects of student life | CNN Politics
