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• 9-20-17
  

  The Media’s Silence on Climate Change During Irma Was Deafening

  by Frank Palmeri

  They are doing the oil corporations’ work by harping on the industry’s publicity campaign of doubt.

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• 9-14-17
  

  What It Was Like Living Through Irma at a Shelter

  by Pearl Duncan

  A geologist’s experience and the lessons she learned.

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• 9-17-17
  

  Donald Trump Is Worse than George Wallace

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  And that’s atrocious.

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• 9-17-17
  

  Was It Bad Luck or Climate Change?

  by Sam White

  Harvey and Irma take us back to an old problem.

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• 9-10-17
  

  Another German Lesson We Should Think About in the Wake of Trump’s Attack on DACA

  by Richard E. Frankel

  The cost to a country that drives out young people.

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• 9-10-17
  

  Lessons from German History after Charlottesville

  by Jeffrey Herf

  What we do  –  and do not  –  have to worry about.

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• 9-7-17
  

  Trump Is Everything the Founding Fathers Feared in a President

  by Jeremi Suri

  The widening gap between power and values produced President Donald Trump, elected to promote raw power above all.

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• 9-6-17
  

  If Jeff Sessions Is Serious About Cracking Down on Immigration Law Violators, He’s Going to Have to Arrest Millions of American Citizens

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  People who knowingly hire undocumented workers are also lawbreakers.

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• 9-3-17
  

  Will Trump Upend the Plan to Replace Jackson with Tubman on the Front of the $20 Bill?

  by Jeremy J. Tewell

  She may not survive Trump extreme vetting.

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• 9-17-17
  

  We Traded in One of the Most Self-Disciplined Presidents for the Most Undisciplined President

  by Walter G. Moss

  The country is paying a price for this recklessness.

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• 9-3-17
  

  One Thing We Should Learn from Harvey

  by Pearl Duncan

  We should pay more attention to gray swans. What’s that?

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• 9-3-17
  

  When Trump Denounces the “Fake Media” Anti-Semites Hear “Jew Media”

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  His attacks resemble Henry Ford’s. He too was embraced by anti-Semites.

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• 8-31-17
  

  To This German Historian, the Implications of Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio Are Ominous

  by Richard E. Frankel

  The message Trump is sending with his pardon of such a man.

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• 9-10-11
  

  Another Way in Which Jackson and Trump Are Linked (And It’s Disturbing)

  by Donald J. Fraser

  The followers of both men believe that you have to be white to be a true American.

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• 8-27-17
  

  We’ve Come to Think of the Anthropocene as Bad

  by Jan Kunnas

  But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.

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• 8-18-17
  

  What It Means to Censure a President

  by Rick Shenkman

  We've censured presidents before. No one remembers this.   If you want to make history, impeach a president. Censures don’t seem to mean much.

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• 8-20-17
  

  America Was Never White

  by Joe Krulder

  The alt-right’s rhetoric of Heritage is pure myth, a fabrication of a false past, creating memory where none existed.

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• 8-17-17
  

  Jeffersonian Democracy after Charlottesville

  by Matthew Crow

  We should think long and hard before we let enemies of the Republic claim one of its creators as their own.

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• 8-17-17
  

  We Found a Historian Who's Defending Trump's Comments on Charlottesville

  by HNN Staff

  His name is Larry Schweikart, professor of history at the University of Dayton and the author of " A Patriot's History of the United States." These are some of his tweets and retweets this week.

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• 8-20-17
  

  Just 43 Republicans Joining with Democrats Could End Donald Trump's Presidency.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  The end is nearer than you think.