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Slavery Was Bad and Must Be Remembered

by Paul Finkelman August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

In this Aug. 30, 2005 picture, floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina fill the streets near downtown New Orleans.

Trump’s Definition of DEI Is a Disaster for Disaster Management

by Gillen Tener Martin August 28, 2025August 27, 2025

Berea College Ranked #1

Berea: The Little College That Could

by Paul Glastris August 27, 2025September 4, 2025

A VA privatization pilot in Congress could weaken veterans’ care, degrade quality, and cost taxpayers over $100 billion a year, experts warn.

Why Stealth Privatization of Veterans’ Care Is Doomed to Fail

by Merrill Goozner August 20, 2025August 22, 2025

Trump Demands: Ditch Vote-By-Mail. Republicans Shouldn’t

by Bill Scher August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

Martin Luther King Files and their sudden release raises question. The author, Leta McCullough Zeletsky, is in the files thanks to her father, an undercover Memphis police officer, who there when the civil rights leader was slain.

Trump Released Martin Luther King Jr. Files: I’m in Them

by Leta McCollough Seletzky August 8, 2025August 7, 2025

War in the Mideast

Hunger in Gaza—the Facts

by Jonathan Alter August 6, 2025August 6, 2025

Photo of Harvard Yard illustrates the threat to academic freedom at the prestigious university

Higher Education

Academic Freedom: How Universities Lost Their Way

by Jonathan Zimmerman August 5, 2025August 8, 2025

The U.S. economy is stumbling badly and that's illustrated by this desperate picture of a tarriff free sign at a New Jersey auto dealership.

The U.S. Economy Is Stumbling Badly

by Robert J. Shapiro August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Elon Musk, Henry ford and the Hiugh Price of Hate Speech. A look back at a century of moguls getting into trouble

Henry Ford vs. Elon Musk: A Century of Hate Speech

by Roger Kerson July 31, 2025July 31, 2025

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