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Is There an Uncontroversial Way to Teach America’s Racist History?
A historian on the unavoidable discomfort around anti-racist education.
by
Jarvis R. Givens
,
Sean Illing
via
Vox
on
June 11, 2021
A Definitive Case Against the Electoral College
Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.
by
Sean Illing
,
Jesse Wegman
via
Vox
on
July 21, 2020
How TV Paved America’s Road to Trump
“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: a TV critic explains the multimedia character Trump created.
by
Sean Illing
,
James Poniewozik
via
Vox
on
November 7, 2019
How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"
Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.
by
Sarah Churchwell
,
Sean Illing
via
Vox
on
October 22, 2018
Why the Right to Vote is Not Enshrined in the Constitution
How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.
by
Sean Illing
,
Allan J. Lichtman
via
Vox
on
September 17, 2018
The Vietnam War and White Power
A conversation with the author of "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America."
by
Kathleen Belew
,
Sean Illing
via
Vox
on
April 13, 2018
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White Tribe Rising
What accounts for white tribalism?
by
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via
The Hedgehog Review
on
June 21, 2018