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Why Republicans Want and Need a Permanent Economic Underclass
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoPresident Abraham Lincoln jumped into the debate with a speech on September 30, 1859, in Milwaukee....
Summer Books: Our Guide to the Best Reading of the Season
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoReview by Tunku Varadarajan ‘The Demon of Unrest’: The Seeds of Civil War Erik Larson tells the...
Kevin Holten: Living between the cracks
The Bismarck Tribune· 19 hours agoIs it possible to be the vice president of the United States and live in total obscurity? Apparently, it is. And our current V.P. has come very close.
We Broke Our Promise to Take Care of Gold Star Families
Military.com· 20 hours agoMilitary spouses line up meal trains and show up to sit with families in grief. Because we don't...
Amber Rose is right: Joe Biden doesn’t care about Black people
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOPINION: The "Muva" of hip-hop's Donald Trump endorsement exposes a fundamental misunderstanding of...
Are we becoming less warlike? Let’s hope so
The Uniontown Herald Standard· 31 minutes agoThe first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and ...
Lies About American History We Were All Taught in School
Cheapism via AOL· 1 day agoA lot of U.S. history is too good to be true — and actually is not. Sometimes fact is ignored, or...
The limits of comparisons to 1968 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoThe ’60s were themselves a kind of rhyme with the 1930s; at times, even with the 1860s. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was...
Republican lawmakers fought to keep the 1864 abortion ban. Even GOP voters thought it was awful.
Arizona Mirror via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhen all but five Republican legislators fought tooth and nail to protect a near-total abortion ban...
Opinion | What Trump Looks Like to Historians
New York Times· 3 days agoThe highest ranked included no surprises: on a scale of 0 to 100, Abraham Lincoln (95.03), Franklin Roosevelt (90.83), George Washington (90.32), Teddy...
