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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Evan Gorelick The New York Times
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right. The posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing...

The Most Rancorous Line

Nicholas Guyatt The New York Review of Books
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?

Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking a Page From the Confederacy

Layla A. Jones Talking Points Memo
By partnering with right-wing groups, Trump and his allies are exercising control over the retelling of history in hopes of shaping the political opinions of the youngest Americans, threatens to propagandize public education for generations to come.

Is a New “New Deal” About To Wipe Out the Old Political Order?

Thom Hartmann Hartmann Report
My grandfather (a 1917 Norwegian immigrant) frequently and proudly described himself as a socialist. When I asked him what he meant, he always pointed me to FDR, the New Deal, and his proposed Second Bill of Rights. And here we are again.
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