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Lew Olowski: Democrats fail the Truman test — debate highlights where each 2020 contender falls short Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lew Olowski: Democrats fail the Truman test — debate highlights where each 2020 contender falls short

The Democratic party elected some of history’s greatest presidents, from Andrew Jackson to John F. Kennedy.Unfortunately, not one of the party’s 2020 presidential candidates measures up. Least of all Michael Bloomberg. He was absent altogether from the Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire yet by saying nothing he gave the best answers.…
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February 9, 2020
Chinese ambassador on Cotton coronavirus comments: ‘It’s very harmful to stir up’ unsubstantiated rumors Biological Warfare

Chinese ambassador on Cotton coronavirus comments: ‘It’s very harmful to stir up’ unsubstantiated rumors

Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai criticized Sen. Tom CottonThomas (Tom) Bryant CottonHillicon Valley: Democrats press Facebook, Twitter to remove new Trump video of Pelosi | Iowa Dem chair calls for investigation into caucus problems | How Reddit is combating coronavirus misinformation Republican senators call on Twitter to suspend…
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February 9, 2020
Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars 1619 Slavery

Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars

James Brewer Stewart, James Wallace Professor of History Emeritus, Macalester College writes extensively on the history of the American abolitionist movement, is the Founder of Historians Against Slavery, an international network of antiracist/ antislavery scholars, teachers and activists and is developing a line of activist sportswear featuring historical images and…
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February 9, 2020
The 1619 Project Debate with History of Slavery in New York City 1619 Slavery

The 1619 Project Debate with History of Slavery in New York City

Alan Singer is a teacher educator and historian at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Author's note: “Represent NYC” is a weekly program produced by Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). The show’s guests usually discuss topics like affordable housing, education policy and domestic violence. I was invited to discuss the New York Times’ 1619 Project and…
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February 9, 2020
Manipulation of Spanish History Has Manufactured A Constitutional Crisis Catalonia

Manipulation of Spanish History Has Manufactured A Constitutional Crisis

Dr. Christopher Binetti is a political scientist, historian, and adjunct professor at Middlesex county College in Edison, New Jersey. Spain is facing an existential crisis. Catalonia, one of its seventeen constituent regions, has a government supported by a small majority that seeks to be fully independent from Spain. Because Spain had not…
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February 9, 2020