The court’s opinion in a case on immigrants’ right to free speech is a powerful lesson in civics
Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever…
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Trump has called the US postal service ‘a joke’. But don’t expect Amazon to replace it | Niamh Rowe ○
Amid financial struggles and presidential criticism, USPS is facing challenges. But it plays an essential role in US life
In towns where Washington DC is an abstraction, the post office is the front d…
6 months ago
Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley ○
The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims
In a letter sent to Smithsonian secretary, Lonnie G Bunch III, on 12 August, the Trump administr…
Trump administration to expand review of Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’ ○
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Exclusive: White House flagged institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document shows
Amid the Donald Trump administration’s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museu…
11 months ago
The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton ○
Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain
The founding fathers of the USA – James Madison…
13 months ago
Here review – Hanks and Wright add folksy charm to Robert Zemeckis single-place drama ○
Set in the same spot – from prehistory onwards – Zemeckis’s sentimental drama is an odd combination of cosmic ambition and domestic intimacy
Robert Zemeckis’s sentimental family heartwarmer, adapted b…
14 months ago
Letters from Lord Byron, Elizabeth I and Benjamin Franklin among collection discovered in British stately home ○
Rare autographed cache found by researcher at National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor
Baron Edmond de Rothschild was one of Europe’s richest and best connected men. But his lifelong hobby – hunting the autog…
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