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How Should We Teach About Human Rights in the Trump Era?

by Luke Reader

Here’s how I’m doing it.

Trump Is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs. But His Solution Is Terrible.

by Louis Ferleger and Jay Mandle

What’s he’s done is pit low-wage workers in the USA against lower-wage workers in foreign countries. This is an old trick.

Why W.E.B. DuBois’s Question to Black People – “How does it feel to be a problem?” – Is Still Relevant

by Paul Lawrie

The answer is the so-called problem of race has always been a problem of labor.

Davos Cosmopolitanism Is Under Attack. But Were the 19th Century Cosmopolitans Like Richard Burton Role Models?

by Paulo Lemos Horta

Some conservatives mistakenly think they are. They’re wrong.

The Dangerous Myth of “Political Correctness”

by Joan E. Cashin

The accusation of “political correctness” is now routinely hurled by people who have never taught at a university, and even worse, who do not accept the university’s purpose.

The Appalling Echo this Historian Hears in Trump’s Rebuke to the Media

by Corey M. Brooks

It sounds like the arguments made in antebellum America by proslavery activists.

In Many Ways but Two, Donald Trump Is No Different from Other Presidents Who Were Indifferent to Religion

by Donne Levy

One is how he’s treated women. Two, is that evangelicals haven’t seemed to care.

Trump Isn’t the First Entrepreneur to Become President

by Joe Carlen

Indeed, he’s just the latest in a long-line of entrepreneur politicians going back to ancient times.

Lincoln Viewed the Civil War as a Struggle for Majority Rule. Today a Minority Governs.

by Jeremy Tewell

Is this democracy?

Trump’s Gift to His Fundamentalist Base

by Adam Laats

He’s reportedly giving Jerry Falwell Jr. a leading role in redesigning American education.

Why Lawyers on both Sides of the Immigration Ban Should Be Studying the Pentagon Papers Case

by Emma Long

One lesson: The courts have a role to play even in cases involving national security.

Wearing Pink Pussyhats Continues the Long Tradition of Using Fashion in the Service of Feminism

by Anthony Toth

Who would have guessed that the largest one-day protest in American history would have as its most recognizable symbol a fuzzy pink cap with cat ears?

The Two Vice Presidents Who Got Along Best with Their Presidents

by Ronald L. Feinman

Walter Mondale and Joe Biden

That Statue of Liberty Poem Everybody Quotes?

by Ryan Poll

It’s about a different refugee crisis than the one we face now, but it’s every bit as relevant.

Trump’s Lawyer Is Wrong. The President Is Violating the Emoluments Clause.

by Richard J. Morris

A careful review of the way the word was used in the 18th century shows this.

President Trump’s Speechwriters Might Want to Re-examine Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Address

by Laurence Jurdem

Jackson did not talk the way Trump does.

Why Indiana Is Feeling Plucky Again!

by Jeff Tenuth

With Pence’s ascension, it’s back where the action is – and that’s where it was for a long long time.

Emotional Politics Won the 2016 Election

by Jeremy C. Young

It’s easy for Democrats to criticize Trump as a demagogue or his voters as unreasoning dupes. In truth, however, American democracy has never operated primarily on the basis of reasoned debate.

You Want to Understand Politics and History? You Have to Understand People.

by Eric Burns

A biographer explains how he approached his latest subject, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Did a Performer at Donald Trump’s Inauguration Wink at Lynching?

by Jennifer Freilach

What you need to know about the song sung by performer Toby Keith.