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• 7-25-17
  

  What Has Happened in Detroit Comprises a National Emergency

  by Scott Kurashige

  Fifty years ago America made a fateful choice. It’s now our turn to decide on a different path.

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• 7-23-17
  

  Do a Majority of Republicans Really Distrust Higher Education?

  by John Willingham

  That’s the gist of a recent Pew poll, but the poll was taken on the heels of a string of campus protests that shaped the response.

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• 7-23-17
  

  America in Crisis: How Will We Get Out of this Mess?

  by Richard Striner

  Historical developments have been fooling the smart alecks since time immemorial, but here are different ways the future may unfold.

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• 7-17-17
  

  Whole Foods Is Opening in Harlem. Should We Be Celebrating?

  by Brian D. Goldstein

  It’s more complicated than you think.

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• 7-23-17
  

  Why Trump’s in More Trouble than Nixon, Reagan and Clinton During Their Scandal Years

  by Donne Levy

  This is the first presidential scandal involving a foreign government interfering with our election process and possible collusion by the man who won the election.

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• 7-16-17
  

  America in Crisis: Both Parties Have Forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression

  by Richard Striner

  And that’s led to economic drift.

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• 7-16-17
  

  When We’re Betrayed We Call It Treason

  by Brian F. Carso

  But for all its hyperbole and incendiary color, talk of treason is primarily a rhetorical shorthand that conjures deep-seated feelings of loyalty, national identity, and trust.

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• 7-23-17
  

  What We Can Learn from Fake News

  by Paul J. Croce

  False facts provide clues about the stories that make the fakery seem true.

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• 7-9-17
  

  Why I’m Running for Congress

  by David Benac

  An historian throws his hat in the ring for Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District.

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• 7-9-17
  

  A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before. It Ended in Disaster.

  by Michael Todd Landis

  A history lesson from the 1850s that the GOP and Donald Trump should heed.

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• 7-9-17
  

  America in Crisis: Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of Our Government Could Lead to Our Undoing

  by Richard Striner

  If in 2020 the winner of the popular vote for president loses in the Electoral College, the rage of the decent American majority will surge as it has never surged before.

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• 7-16-17
  

  How Much Is a Boss Worth?

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Americans favor limiting CEO pay to no more than six times the pay of the average worker. How much more than that CEO’s actually make!

• 
• 7-2-17
  

  The GOP’s Pattern of Denial Is Usually Followed by Acceptance

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  That’s what happens with Social Security.

• 
• 7-9-17
  

  Fake News? Maybe This Is What Democracy Looks Like

  by Jocelyn Olcott

  A look back at the 1975 women’s conference shows that people who share different assumptions will often disagree about what constitutes fake news.

• 
• 7-9-17
  

  Everything Politicians in the Trump Era Need to Know George Washington Knew as a Boy

  by Suzy Evans

  That they don’t know how to behave is demoralizing.

• 
• 7-2-17
  

  The Founding Fathers Have Another Lesson to Teach Us

  by Donald J. Fraser

  We must get along.

• 
• 6-25-17
  

  America in Crisis: Is a Second Civil War in the Making?

  by Richard Striner

  People on both sides of the culture war believe that their opposite numbers “don’t understand what America is all about.”

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• 6-18-17
  

  America in Crisis: Our Grotesque Predicament

  by Richard Striner

  The first in a series.

• 
• 6-18-17
  

  We’ve Gone from American Exceptionalism to American Unexceptionalism

  by Fred Zilian

  This is what Trump has accomplished in 6 short months.

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• 6-11-17
  

  “Me, Me, Me” Is the Mantra of the Trump Administration

  by David Lee McMullen

  And unfortunately this dog-eat-dog example is being watched and replicated around the world.