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June 12, 2016

The GOP Needs to Be Fixed

by Ray Smock

The crisis of our national politics right now is not the failure of both parties as much as it is the failure of the Republican Party.

June 29, 2016

Could Trump Be Nurturing the Next Hitler?

by Ibram X. Kendi

He’s popularizing racist arguments like the ones that inspired Hitler.

June 26, 2016

The Rise and Fall of the White Working Class

by Stephen W. Campbell

How wealthier whites through the centuries successfully employed a “divide and conquer” strategy that brought together whites of all social classes under a common racial identity with a common enemy. Which brings us to Donald Trump.

June 19, 2016

A Trump Presidency Would Amount to an Environmental Nightmare

by Walter G. Moss

Trump’s glorification of consumption would spell environmental doom, as E. F. Schumacher warned decades ago.

June 9, 2016

Has the Shaming of Brock Turner Gone too Far?

by Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher

This medieval historian says it has.

June 12, 2016

Donald Trump’s Attack on the Press Sounds Like Nixon

by James D. Robenalt

He is telling us in public what Nixon hid in secret, but the results will be the same, if not worse.

June 8, 2016

There’s Something Else We Should Remember About Muhammad Ali’s Comeback Bout with Joe Frazier

by Leonard Steinhorn

It was an event everybody in America paid attention to. In our fragmented media environment today that wouldn’t happen. That’s unfortunate.

June 19, 2016

Is Donald Trump the New Aaron Burr?

by Donald J. Fraser

Like Trump, Burr was despised by his peers.

Source: Bruce W. Dearstyne

June 26, 2016

Lessons Donald Trump Can Learn from Wendell Willkie

What Trump could learn by studying history.

June 26, 2016

Whether Trump Wins or Loses, the GOP Has to Change.

by Timothy Lynch

This historian’s suggestion is that the party take a back to the future approach.

June 5, 2016

The GOP Is Dying

by Ronald L. Feinman

Trump’s triumph marks the end of a once great (but flawed) American party.

June 5, 2016

Why It’s Impossible to Watch a Documentary About Fascism and Not Think of Donald Trump

by Ron Briley

The documentary is “Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.”

May 29, 2016

There’s One Big Reason Bernie’s Doing Better than Hillary Against Trump and It’s Not Because He’s more Likable

by Robert Brent Toplin

It’s because the GOP has refrained from attacking him. Remember Dukakis?

July 3, 2016

The Hidden Factor in the Outbreak of Violence in Ferguson, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Cincinnati

by Christopher Phillips

They straddle the Mason Dixon Line. Here’s why that matters.

May 29, 2016

The Main Problem with Donald Trump: He's a Fool

by Walter G. Moss

As a nation, we can only hope that come November we will not be heading toward the disgrace that Donald Trump’s pride and arrogance would surely produce.