It is extremely difficult to fully address the myriad problems with Donald Trump’s Conservative 1776 Commission on the teaching of history. The document is a mixture of racism, attacks on liberal and letting movements, selective history, un-nuanced evidence taken out of context, and intentionally misleading use of historical figures. There…

Trump continued his attack on the field of history today with his Proclamation on Columbus Day 2020, which comes on the heels of his recent announcement of the 1776 project, designed to teach a patriotic version of American history. Just about everything in the proclamation is wrong and, frankly, silly…

In recent weeks, as Black Lives Matter protests have erupted across the nation in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, some have begun to question whether or not we should have military bases named after soldiers from the Confederacy. As is often the case when people engage…

When the Spanish arrived in Mexico in the early 16th Century they witnessed the Aztec engaging in religious ceremonies that included ritual human sacrifice. Despite their own barbarity, they immediately labeled the Aztec to savage barbarians and use this to justify their conquest and genocide that followed. Roughly 500 years…

It has become clear that Bernie Sanders is the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. However, it is not yet clear if he will be able to win over 50% of the delegates in such a crowded field of candidates. The stats gurus at Fivethirtyeight.com give him roughly a 30…

Yesterday, my son, who is currently in second grade, came home with a Scholastic article on Martin Luther King. As we read it together, I couldn’t help but notice that Scholastic had written the article in such a way as to prevent students from actually understanding who Dr. …

The Democratic Party primary can largely be seen as a contest between two wings of the party: the progressives and the neoliberals. Up until very recently, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been attempting to keep a foot in each camp — his rhetoric was often quite progressive, but his policies mostly…

During the colonial period, there was a common belief that freedom is directly linked to one’s ability to control their own labor. A worker who exchanged labor for wages was less free because his or her labor was being done at the direction of another. The primary method of becoming…

Many in the corporate media are aghast at the Senator Sanders’ suggestion that the media is being unfair. Some even went as far as claiming that it is a conspiracy theory! However, it is anything but. In fact, it is the most obvious thing in the world. …