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Zohran Mamdani’s transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations

Assembly member Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference on universal child care at Columbus Park Playground on Nov. 19, 2024, in New York City....

‘Aliens’ and ‘animals’ – language of hate used by Trump and others can be part of a violent design

Asylum seekers wait at Catholic Charities in McAllen, Texas, for humanitarian aid on Jan. 18, 2025. Associated Press/Eric Gay by Ronald Niezen, University of San...

75 years ago, the KKK and anti-communists teamed up to violently stop a folk concert in NY

Fighting rages in Peekskill, N.Y., on Aug. 27,1949, as veterans break up a scheduled concert by singer Paul Robeson. AP Photo by Nina Silber, Boston...

How reciting the Pledge of Allegiance became a sacred, patriotic ritual

The anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. flag is celebrated each year on June 14. tiaramaio/RooM via Getty images by Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes...

Biden celebrates unsung war heroes at 80th D-Day commemoration

This year, President Joe Biden ensured that history would uncover soldiers' role in global justice commending living service members by name in his address...

James Clavell’s ‘Shōgun’ is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers

by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County In 1980, when James Clavell’s blockbuster historical novel “Shōgun” was turned into a TV miniseries, some...

Masters of the Air: the real history behind the show’s Black fighter pilots

Pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group stationed in Italy as part of the 15th Air Force, August 1944. National Archives, Author provided (no reuse) by Graham Cross,...

With ‘White Christmas,’ Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby helped make Christmas a holiday that all Americans could celebrate

After Irving Berlin, left, penned ‘White Christmas,’ he pegged Bing Crosby as the ideal singer for what would become a holiday classic. Irving Haberman/IH Images...

Israelis and Palestinians warring over a homeland is far from unique

The golden Dome of the Rock Islamic shrine, a holy site for Muslims, stands close to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, in an...

Racial wealth gaps are yet another thing the US and UK have in common

by Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University It’s an old saying that Britain and America are two countries separated by a common language. But they are united...

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