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Great has more than one meaning in American history 

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Donald Wright Against the backdrop of the American election, and the vow to make America great yet again, I am reminded that there is a competing, and more expansive, definition of great with a long and inspiring history. But first, Donald Trump. He has co-opted the word, made it his own, and compelled it to do his bidding. Make America… Read more »

This Isn’t Who We Are? Cold War Rhetoric and the Trump Riots

By Andrew Sopko America’s political history has been leading to the events at Capitol Hill on 6 January 2021 for a quite some time. The Cold War’s stifling impact on American politics directly shaped today’s troubling reality by slowly pushing progressive left voices from mainstream discourse. As a result, far-right critiques of the American nation-state which simultaneously avoid criticizing the… Read more »