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Born in the USA

For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution.
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on March 31, 2026
Under the Shadow
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Under the Shadow

How the United States Stole Mexico

As Trump threatens military action in Mexico under the banner of fighting drug cartels, this episode examines the deeper history of foreign intervention in Mexico. Visiting Mexico City’s National Museum of Interventions, host Michael Fox explores how Mexico has resisted invasions by Spain, France, and the United States, including the 1848 war that cost Mexico over half its territory. The episode connects past imperial ambitions to current US policy toward Latin America.
March 26, 2026
Law enforcement officer dragging dozens of handcuffs and chains behind him.

Hunted and Banned

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
by Robyn Maynard via Boston Review on March 25, 2026
Chavez in Salinas, California, in 1979.

What Cesar Chavez Cost the Movement

His crimes against women and his 'too big to fail' persona created immeasurable harm.
by Matt Garcia via Zócalo Public Square on March 19, 2026
Protesting Obama’s second inauguration, January 2013

The Legacy of Obama's Drone Wars

Who paved the road to Trump's war?
by Séamus Malekafzali via The Drift
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on March 19, 2026
Statue of Caesar Rodney, when it was located in Wilmington, Delaware.

Statue Removed During a City’s Racial Reckoning to be Displayed in D.C.

A statue of Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who enslaved over 200 people, was taken down in Delaware, during 2020 protests.
by Joe Heim, Olivia George via Washington Post
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on March 18, 2026
Unite the Right rally gathers with torches around Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville in 2017.

On the Laughable Origins of the Far Right’s Beloved “Great Replacement Theory”

How a fringe idea made its way from rural France to the heart of American power.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Literary Hub on March 18, 2026
Bernie Goetz

Long Before MAGA’s White Grievance, There Was Bernie Goetz

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train.
by Paul M. Renfro via Jacobin
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on March 16, 2026
Former President George W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.

The Uncanny Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s War With Iran

The president has often defined his foreign policy approach in opposition to the Bush administration’s, but he is following in its footsteps.
by Frederick Deknatel via New Lines on March 13, 2026
A street fair during Somali Week in Minneapolis, 2016.

From Mogadishu to Minneapolis

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.
by Elizabeth Schmidt via Africa Is A Country on March 6, 2026
Men inspect the ruins of a police station in Tehran, Iran.

CIA Agents Successfully Executed a Plan For Regime Change in Iran in 1953

A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy.
by Gregory F. Treverton via The Conversation on March 3, 2026
Painting of Sir Edward Coke, English jurist, by Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen.

The Historic Case for Birthright Citizenship

The Trump administration’s efforts to narrow the scope of the 14th Amendment are based on revisionist history.
by Keith Whittington via The Dispatch on March 2, 2026
Black and white photograph of George Sutherland.

How the Supreme Court Enabled Trump's Unilateral War on Iran

For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.
by Steve Kennedy via Liberal Currents on March 2, 2026
James Millward holding fliers about Trump's portrait with the National Portrait Gallery behind him.

A Professor Challenged the Smithsonian. Security Shut the Gallery.

As President Trump seeks to reshape its museums and other cultural institutions, wall text has become a battleground and documentation a form of resistance.
by Kelsey Ables via Washington Post
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on February 25, 2026
Official portrait of Abraham Lincoln, by George PA Healy, 1869.

‘A Partisan and Politician’: Abraham Lincoln and the Art of the Deal

A new book takes a fresh look at a well-studied political figure, showing him to be a master of party politics.
by Martin Pengelly via The Guardian on February 25, 2026
A graphic of the acronym G.O.P in the style of Nazi lettering.

The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem

How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?
by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on February 23, 2026
Prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility give the Black Power salute on September 10, 1971.

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe

Black anti-fascists have long warned about creeping fascism, from slavery to mass incarceration to ICE terror.
by George Yancy, Jeanelle K. Hope via Truthout on February 21, 2026
Fred Thompson, Howard Baker, and Sam Ervin at the Watergate hearings.

From Hell – Trump’s Modified Limited Hangout on Epstein Is Leaving America Hanging

From Jack the Ripper to Nixon and Watergate to Trump and Epstein, coverups have frequently roiled political history.
by R. C. Baker via Village Voice on February 20, 2026
A model of the front of the White House in a museum exhibit.

Last House on the Left

Learning on tablets at The People’s House.
by Robert Vetter via The Baffler
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on February 18, 2026
Collage showing a hand casting a ballot, a painting of the Consitutional Convention, and Donald Trump.

The Founders Would Have Opposed ‘Nationalizing’ Elections

The writers of the Constitution sought an approach that balanced control between the states and the federal government.
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic
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on February 16, 2026
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