A woman votes in the controversial referendum in Donetsk, Ukraine on Sept. 27, 2022.Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Tatsiana Kulakevich, University of South Florida Russia is set to formally annex four occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, …
TELEPATHETIC TRUMP (CARTOON, COLUMN AND VIDE0)
Part of Trump’s defense for having classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago is that he declassified all of them. That doesn’t explain why he took the documents and worked so hard not to return them to the government. It doesn’t explain why he obst…
Name-calling in politics grabs headlines, but voters don’t like it – and it could backfire in the 2022 midterm elections
A voter and her child cast a ballot during the midterm primary elections in Virginia in June 2022.Alex Wong/Getty Images Beth L. Fossen, Indiana University Spending on political advertising is setting records in the midterm elections. But evidence show…
As Books Come Increasingly Under Attack, a Story of How They Were Treasured, Protected, in One of Hitler’s Death Camps
Nazi book burning on the Opernplatz , Berlin, 1933. Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration. If you thought that book burnings were a barbaric relic of the Middle Ages, think again. In the 1930s, in Nazi Germany, Austria and, later, in…
BROKEBACK WATERS (CARTOON, COLUMN AND VIDEO)
As this article in The Tempest points out, right-wingers have been upset over a black Little Mermaid since at least 2019. Some conservatives are using the term “blackwashing,” stealing the term “whitewashing,” which is when a white actor plays a non-wh…
Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pull from segregationists’ playbook with their anti-immigration stunts
An undocumented immigrant from Venezuela kisses the forehead of another immigrant on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.Dominic Chavez for The Washington Post via Getty Images Greta de Jong, University of Nevada, Reno As a historian of ra…
Conspiracy theories are dangerous even if very few people
Lies don’t have to spread far to cause problems.numismarty/iStock/Getty Images Plus Keith Raymond Harris, Ruhr University Bochum There is an open question among pundits and researchers: Do more Americans believe in conspiracy theories now than ever bef…
Ukraine’s rapid advance against Russia shows mastery of 3 essential skills for success in modern warfare
An abandoned and disabled Russian tank.Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service Ukrainian forces, aided by Western firepower, have upset traditional military logic once again. Advancing deep…
Political Human Trafficking. Does the End Justify the Means?
Randall Enos via Cagle cartoons po·lit·i·cal hu·man traf·fick·ing : the vile stunt of conning and transporting human beings in order to score political points, typically in the form of relocating them to notable places with the false promise of work, h…
Queen Elizabeth II: a moderniser who steered the British monarchy into the 21st century
Sean Lang, Anglia Ruskin University When the late historian Sir Ben Pimlott embarked on his 1996 biography, his colleagues expressed surprise that he should consider Queen Elizabeth II worthy of serious study at all. Yet Pimlott’s judgement proved soun…