Jul 3, 2022 | History, Salon.com
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Many years ago, a young man named Frank Bourgin, a graduate student in history at the University of Chicago, wrote a dissertation arguing that founding fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had taken economic positions that, by modern standards, were highly progressive....
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May 29, 2022 | Elections, History, Salon.com
American labor leader, US Presidential candidate, and prominent socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855 – 1926) waves to supporters following his release from prison on Christmas Day, December 25, 1921. PhotoQuest/Getty Images
Nothing divides Americans like the question of free speech: What it means, who deserves it and who does not. Conservatives like to complain about being “censored” or “canceled” for their attacks on LGBTQ rights or mask mandates, but lately have started trying to impose all kinds of restrictions on speech in education, especially on issues of gender identity, sexual orientation and race....
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May 1, 2022 | History, Salon.com
Plastic-degrading bacteria Ideonella sakaiensis, 3D illustration Getty Images/Dr_Microbe
Though its effects are not always visible to the naked eye, plastic is choking life on Earth. Birds are dying from plastic accumulating their intestines. Animals are full of microplastics, and humans are unintentionally eating a credit card’s worth of plastic every week, which is seeping into our bloodstream....
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Apr 23, 2022 | History, Salon.com
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Between 1990 and 2003, NASA scientists launched a series of technologically advanced telescopes into space. Dubbed the Great Observatories, these four astronomical telescopes were designed to observe areas of space with equipment that could monitor the range of frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum.
The first of those telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, is perhaps the most famous of the bunch....
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Mar 13, 2022 | History, Salon.com
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Hubert Humphrey can fairly be described as the Joe Biden of his time, but with one key difference: The Republican candidate who sabotaged U.S. foreign policy and meddled in an overseas conflict in an effort to win his presidential election wound up, well, actually winning it....
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Jan 23, 2022 | History, Republicans, Salon.com
James Garfield, Joe Biden and Donald Trump Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images
If you’re a liberal Democrat, you’ve probably been feeling cursed for a while. Every time it seems like things might get better — for America, the world or both — bad luck strikes, and the result is a massive setback....
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Dec 18, 2021 | Abortion, History, Salon.com
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women’s March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
There is an intriguing parallel between the right-wing’s opposition to abortion rights and its crusade to prevent gun control, at least when it comes to the history of those movements in the United States....
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Dec 5, 2021 | History, Salon.com
Sit Downers Hail “Armistice Day.” Sit down strikers at the Cadillac and Fleetwood Plants here, led by a hand playing “Hail to the Victors” march jubilantly from the plants after a truce had been declared permitting negotiation between G. M. officials and members of the United Automobile workers of America. General Motors is determined however not to surrender exclusive collective bargaining rights for employees to the United Automobile workers Getty Images/Bettmann/Contributor
Joe Biden frequently says that he wants to emulate Franklin D....
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Nov 28, 2021 | History, Immigration, Salon.com
Lyndon B. Johnson with the 6th and 7th grade students in the class he taught in 1928 and 1929. Cotulla, Texas. CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
Last month I found myself in a friend’s kitchen, perched on a wooden stool while pointing a cracked iPhone screen at my laptop’s voice recorder. I was interviewing a pair of climate activists in their 20s, who were hunger striking to protest ongoing political inaction in the face of climate change....
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Nov 7, 2021 | History, Salon.com
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For those of you who have been mercifully spared this information, supporters of Donald Trump have started using the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” as a code for “Fuck Joe Biden.” The craze began after an NBC Sports reporter at a NASCAR race in Alabama mistook the profane chant by some fans as an expression of support for driver Brandon Brown....
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