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Over 2000 Historians and Scholars Sign Letter Urging Impeachment

The letter was released two days before the House is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment.

The 1936 Olympics Teach Us Why Trump's Lies Are So Dangerous

by Andrew Maraniss

In the face of a mounting threat to humanity, a campaign of lies, inaction, and disinterest in the truth were all equally dangerous. 

Disaster Relief and the Founding Fathers: Original Intent?

by Cynthia A. Kierner

What does the appalling spectacle of the Superdome after Katrina, the disgraceful neglect of post-Maria Puerto Rico, or the far greater attention paid to wildfires in California over their equally devastating counterparts in Oklahoma, say about the politics and culture of twenty-first-century America?

A Senate Impeachment Trial Isn't Really a Trial and It Was Never Meant to Be

by Harlow Giles Unger

Only Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were tried in the Senate. As the Founders had planned, both suffered humiliation but neither was convicted. 

Edmund G. Ross Was a Profile in Impeachment Corruption, not Courage

by David O. Stewart

The current impeachment proceedings have revived the historical error of proclaiming Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross a hero for providing the vote that saved President Andrew Johnson’s job after the April 1868 impeachment trial.   

What Joe Biden and Franklin Roosevelt Have in Common

by James Robenalt

And how it explains the differences between FDR and Donald Trump. 

A Real Red Wedding Massacre Puts Lie to Trump's Claim That he "Obliterated" ISIS

by Brian Glyn Williams and Javed Rezayee

The human cost of the war in Afghanistan. 

Why Colleges Need a Required Class in African American History

by David Barber

The real test for our campus is not how loudly we denounce white supremacy, how “disgusting” we find it, but how steadfastly we commit ourselves to really educating our students in the history of this country, a country born in white supremacy.

How the Gender Wars of the Early 1990s Shaped the World We Know

by Philip Jenkins

Political campaigns combined with media crusades and popular activism to effect a radical and irreversible change in concepts of sexual behavior, and to raise unprecedented alarm about the dangers of male sexual violence and harassment.

30 years after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, have we come full circle?

by Gideon Remez

History is repeating itself as Havelian satire rather than farce. Again, an autocratic Moscow is working to expand its sphere, weaken its adversaries and break up their alliances.

A Boss is a Boss: Nurses Battle for Their First Union Contract at Albany Medical Center

by Lawrence Wittner

A nonprofit employer is not necessarily a better boss than a profit-making one. That sad truth is reinforced by the experience of some 2,200 nurses at Albany Medical Center, who have been fighting for a contract since April 2018, when they voted for union representation.

A President Ready to Pardon

by Harlow Giles Unger

President Trump was far from first to issue controversial military pardons.

What the Trump Impeachment Inquiry Means for the Rest of the World

by Kevin M. Shanley

America’s political crisis comes at a time of rising global instability.

NATO's First Post-Wall Summit 30 Years Later

by Stephan Kieninger

Debates over NATO’s purpose are not new. The alliance has always managed to adapt in times of challenges.

Cynicism May be the Real Threat to Impeachment

by Donald J. Fraser

We need to acknowledge that corruption has been allowed to seep into our system by reviewing some examples of recent corruption. We should see what the founders intended, and how far we have strayed from their views of corruption. 

An Extinct Species: The Liberal Republican

by Donne Levy

As both parties have unified, those whose views are not considered mainstream enough have been sidelined or eliminated. This shift has meant the extinction of the liberal or moderate Republican.

The Power of the 2017 Congressional Recess

by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin

Leaders got involved because the country had fallen into the hands of a vile, dangerous bully. They were not going to put up with harassment in their own communities.

The Capital City and the Civil War

by S.C. Gwynne

In the winter of 1863–64, Washington was the most heavily defended city on earth.

Altamont: After the Bleeding Stopped

by D. M. Giangreco

While many features on Altamont’s 50th anniversary will focus on the violence, I’ll always remember what happened after the bleeding stopped: the chaos of broken promises and what the willing volunteers--- unsupported and unknown --- ultimately accomplished there.

How did November become the Mizrahi Heritage Month? And what’s Mizrahi anyhow?

by Lior Sternfeld and Arie M. Dubnov

The Mizrahi heritage month is not a local, grassroots initiative that emerged in response to experiences of discrimination or marginalization. Instead, it is a transatlantic importation of recent attempts by the Israeli government to commemorate the forced expulsion of Jews from the Arab and Muslim world in the wake of the establishment of Israel.