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Conspiracy Stories: How Trump has revived the tyrannical playbook of J. Edgar Hoover

Conspiracy Stories: How Trump has revived the tyrannical playbook of J. Edgar Hoover

Posted by | Jul 22, 2020 |

By Stephen M. Underhill, Associate Professor, Marshall University Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has denounced his critics for the same claims made against him, attacking their credibility and portraying himself as a victim of conspiracies. His lies are well documented, yet he accuses reporters of perpetual deception. He was impeached for obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, yet he accuses Joe Biden of corrupt practices in Ukraine. By employing these tactics, Trump is lifting freely from former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook. Hoover, for example, lived a closeted gay life yet networked with Nazis who murdered people...

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Remembering John Lewis: An icon of the social justice movement with a legacy of community service

Remembering John Lewis: An icon of the social justice movement with a legacy of community service

Posted by | Jul 18, 2020 |

Just before midnight on July 17, we heard the news that 80-year-old Georgia Representative John Lewis has passed away from pancreatic cancer. As a young adult, Lewis was a “troublemaker,” breaking the laws of his state: he broke the laws upholding racial segregation. He organized voting registration drives and in 1960 was one of the thirteen original Freedom Riders, white and black students traveling together from Washington DC to New Orleans to challenge segregation. “It was very violent. I thought I was going to die. I was left lying at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery unconscious,” Lewis later...

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Assault on public schools: Why Betsy DeVos is using the pandemic to privatize education across the nation

Assault on public schools: Why Betsy DeVos is using the pandemic to privatize education across the nation

Posted by | Jul 14, 2020 |

Photo by Gage Skidmore and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 The administration escalated its insistence on July 12 that our public schools must reopen on schedule for the fall. On “Fox News Sunday,” Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos told Chris Wallace – who is one of the Fox News Channel’s actual reporters, “We know that children contract and have the virus at far lower incidence than any other part of the population, and we know that other countries around the world have reopened their schools and have done so successfully and safely.” Wallace asked her if it was fair...

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“Give Me Liberty, And Give Me Death!” What the anti-mask messages really say

“Give Me Liberty, And Give Me Death!” What the anti-mask messages really say

Posted by | Jul 10, 2020 |

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry March 23, 1775 “Governor Brown has no authority to take our civil liberties. We aren’t going to wear masks. “F— Kate Brown.” – Oregon State Police trooper after refusing to wear mask inside Salem, Oregon coffee shop, July 2020 The cry by Patrick Henry of giving me liberty or giving me death is an...

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You’ll get used to it: Trump supporters embrace an alternate reality on his failed response to COVID-19

You’ll get used to it: Trump supporters embrace an alternate reality on his failed response to COVID-19

Posted by | Jul 9, 2020 |

It is becoming clearer that there are currently two different versions of America. The White House and Trump supporters are trying to pretend that the world Trump continually tweets about is real, while the rest of the country is proving that reality doesn’t much care about the fictions Trump is peddling. July 6 began with Trump frantic-tweeting, and those tweets were an impressionistic picture of how he hopes to win voters. He defended his performance in combatting what he called “new China Virus” cases, touted the strong stock market, and warned that “if you want your 401k’s and Stocks,...

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