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1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

… is any indicator of its current direction, we're on our way to losing a lot more jobs. Why is that? Because … like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created jobs for the unemployed, while others, such as the National … use it to fund a generous "cash for clunkers" program which buys and scraps old inefficient and highly polluting cars …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… claimed that Obama's election signified a shift in the way Americans conceptualize race and that there is no longer … Weaver had a place at the table in discussions over the best tactics for obtaining equal job and housing opportunity … to achieve more, and how his particular strategy might be revisited to meet the continuing problems of urban decline and …
North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

… nation. Strained budgets have been the most cited reason for past cancelations of Memorial Day events. But the truth … in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or …
Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012

Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism

… campaign as a religious crusade and has made no apology for it. Satan is loose in the land, according to Santorum, … in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … in plain sight.   Santorum is a Catholic. While he has always acknowledged this, he has downplayed the specifics of …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… Europe . The United States military begins preparing for war against Russia again, unveiling plans to quadruple … and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … than military or strategic factors. The alliance has always needed to keep an eye on its internal political …
Heads of delegations at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), which led to the signing of the Paris Agreement.

Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen

… of solving a problem facing the entire world, the summit’s composition best resembles a hodgepodge of national-or what in the … Many end up being talking shops, producing little in the way of results.   This is in part because most of the … History News Service … Looking for a Common Language at Copenhagen …
Amish schoolhouse in 1941 Pennsylvania.

1/13/2015: Top Ten Origins: The Common Core Curriculum

… by teachers’ unions, Common Core is an attempt to take away workplace autonomy while imposing more high-stakes … intrusion, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the national Council of Chief State … adopted only the language curriculum) . Click this link to visit the Common Core standards official webpage for an …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… On June 15, 1950,  North Korean armed forces invaded  South Korea and launched a brutal war on the … forces, however, the South Korean military repelled the Communist attack and eventually pushed them north of the … the other. Sometimes diplomats from the two Koreas would visit the same head of state within the same day.  Seoul …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… are tightly intertwined. American immigration policy has always toggled back and forth between seeking immigrant labor … U.S. immigration document. Upon his return from a temporary visit to China in 1895, Wong was denied re-entry to San … eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa in order to solicit their best and brightest. Headlines in the New York Times from the …
This 1952 illustration by Robert Thom of Sims' gynecological experiments involving enslaved women is part of a larger collection entitled Great Moments in Medicine.

Black Women, Medical Racism, and COVID-19

… orchestrated. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the medical community praised Lindsay. She was a healthcare hero . Lindsay was also a reminder of the ways in which ideas of race and the practice of medicine … University of Michigan, UMHS.30. For example, Anarcha, Besty, and Lucy are the names of enslaved women whom Marion …