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The Left is Back!

by Walter Hixson

Whether Bernie Sanders goes on to win the nomination, which appears increasingly likely, the left has risen and it is not likely to recede anytime soon.

When Anti-Lynching Law Was a Tool of Oppression

by Guy Lancaster

Arkansas used its ostensible “anti-lynching” law to transform the “bad violence” of the mob into the “good violence” of the state, to transform lynching into officially sanctioned execution.

What Mussolini and Hitler's Rise to Power Can Teach Us about Opposing Trump: Unite, Unite!

by Walter G. Moss

The luxury of voting third party or not voting at all is no longer a sensible option for anyone wishing for a USA we can cherish.   

“He Could Get Squishy on Democracy”: Bill Clinton’s Perception of Vladimir Putin According to Recently Public Documents

by Stephan Kieninger

Newly available Clinton Presidential Library files give readers novel insights and fascinating impressions of Putin’s KGB heritage, his manners, his style, his shrewdness and his ways of manipulation. 

The Infamous Incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan

by Michael McAuliffe

The history of the KKK and what I learned as a federal civil rights prosecutor. 

The Trump Administration is Not Ready for the Coronavirus

by Robert Brent Toplin

Bumbling Reactions to the Health Crisis May Weaken Trump’s Political Support

What’s at stake when newspapers abdicate their duty to endorse candidates? Plenty.

by Rita Kirk

The other 97% — local elections — matter.

Abolishing the Electoral College Requires the Unanimous Consent of Every State in the Union

by Robert Hardaway

The Founders were right: the Electoral College ensures small states and minority groups matter in our democracy. 

Is Bernie the New George McGovern?

by Michel A. Genovese

One can see close parallels between the 1972 presidential contest and that of 2020. Those parallels do not bode well for Bernie Sanders or the Democrats. 

Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers

by Lawrence Wittner

Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Has he kept this promise?

Deep Division: Comparing Today and the 1960s

by Donne Levy

America is a deeply divided nation. That fact may be the only thing that Americans of all racial, ethnic, and political groups can agree about.

Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism

by Gary Dorrien

Sanders conceives democratic socialism as the fitting name for his belief that a living wage, universal healthcare, a complete education, affordable housing, a clean environment, and a secure retirement are economic rights. These six economic rights come from Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 Economic Bill of Rights.

Racist Bullying in My Small Town Made National News. Here's What We Can Learn From How the Town Responded.

by Claudia Moscovici

Even if only a small minority of Salinians hold racist and xenophobic views, this community will do its best to make sure these discriminatory views are no longer swept under the rug, but faced, combatted and discouraged. 

Why Trump Is Different than Reagan, Either Bush, Dole, McCain, or Romney—He’s Evil

by Water G. Moss

Like Trump’s six previous Republican presidential candidates (and like many Trump supporters), all of the major 2020 Democratic candidates are decent human beings. Trump is evil.

In Defense of Public Institutions

by Elizabeth Stice

While the generations of the past sought to establish public institutions, in our era, there is a relentless push for more privatization, far beyond the postal service.

“Free College” in Historical Perspective

by John R. Thelin

“Free college” is a visible and volatile issue in the Democrat candidates’ presidential campaign platforms. No Democratic candidate today can afford to ignore the issue, even if it means taking time to impose strict limits. 

New Evidence from the Clinton Presidential Library on Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl's Diplomatic Relationship

by Stephan Kieninger

The Clinton-Kohl documents shed new light on their efforts to facilitate the emergence of an interdependent and transnational world based on freedom, peace, security and prosperity.

“Patriotic” Veterans Only, Please

by Gregory A. Daddis

While perhaps an indication of our current toxic political environment, the attacks on “unpatriotic” veterans like U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman actually have a long and checkered history in post-World War II America.

Was Nixon Really Better Than Trump?

by James Robenalt

Nixon’s tapes show an embattled president acting the same way, only behind closed doors.

Trump's Acquittal and the History of the Intentionally Undemocratic Senate

by Ed Simon

What can and must be learned from the impeachment affair isn’t that resistance to Trump has to be fruitless, but rather that we can’t expect institutions and procedures to be that which saves us.