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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.

The Middle East Seems to People in the West a Foreign Place. It Isn’t.

by Christopher Binetti

We should see the modern Middle East as another branch of our own Western Civilization and hope for it to reclaim its roots in freedom, law, and order.

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

by Jeremy Tewell

Is this democracy?

Who Really Freed the Slaves?

by Michael Hogan

We should be teaching our kids the stories about blacks who won major battles in the Civil War.

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

Teaching History in the Age of Trump

by Denver Brunsman and John Donoghue

We have each, in different ways, found ourselves in the crosshairs of right-wing attacks in the past several weeks.

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.

Suddenly What Happened to Japanese Americans 75 Years Ago Is Newly Relevant

by Shirley Ann Higuchi

This is one family’s story.

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.

How Is Emmett Till Remembered?

by Dave Tell and Patrick Weems

That depends on whose story gets told.