Tag: history
How ‘historic’ are we?
Truth to tell, the word historic does get tossed around rather loosely these days.
A veteran’s case for canceling student debt and making higher education...
The G.I. Bill helped millions realize a future they otherwise may not have ever known. We can do the same again—on an even larger scale.
Meet Alexander von Humboldt, the first person to understand climate change...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting.
Redacting democracy: Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of...
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.
Notre Dame fire dramatizes the truly irreplaceable
If not cathedrals, what then are irreplaceable? Human life, above all, with animal and plant life close behind – and ideals and quests.
Costs of war: 17 years after 9/11, nearly half a million...
The cost of the global so-called war on terror will soon surpass $6 trillion.
The 19th-century tumult over climate change – and why it matters...
“People don’t know how to have a dialogue any more.” My hope is that the case of 19th-century climatology will remind us what a genuine dialogue looks like.
Why the time-honored White House protest needs defending
There is a lot for us to do, and unless we have public space, we can’t do the work of building a different kind of society and a different kind of world.
Ethics and empire: an open letter from Oxford scholars
Good and evil may be meaningful terms of analysis for theologians. They are useless to historians.
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A nurse bought protective supplies for her colleagues using GoFundMe. The hospital suspended her.
How a confrontation in one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots illustrates a troubling national trend.
Is the DNC cheating? Again?
The DNC’s candidate always gains in the counting. And that is highly suspicious.
Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic. Instead, the company...
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.
Travesty averted: An uplifting poem for the pandemic
There are times when well-meaning "message poetry" captures the moment and touches heart strings.
Elizabeth Warren introduces plan to protect elections during coronavirus pandemic
"Congress must act to protect our upcoming elections, keep voters and poll workers safe, and safeguard our electoral institutions for the long haul."