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Topic: 1960s

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MAGA and the death of middlebrow

Mike Lofgren
President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How in God's name did we get here?

Mike Lofgren
Pro-Palestinian protesters and students gather at the UC Berkeley encampment area outside Sproul Hall, May 7, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Is this the "right" way to protest?

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Exterior view of EJ Korvette department store on 5th Avenue (at East 47th Street), decorated for the holidays with a 5-story tall, Christmas Tree made of lights, New York, New York, December 1969. (Walter Leporati/Getty Images)

Christmas 1968: New York City

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Freedom school teacher Liz Fusco with students- Ruleville, Mississippi. 1964 (Tracy Sugarman/Jackson State University via Getty Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Robert S. McElvaine
Musician Micky Dolenz of The Monkees performs on stage at The Magnolia on September 18, 2021 in El Cajon, California. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)

The Monkees v. the FBI

Alison Stine
A Black Lives Matter flag waves in front of a fire at the North Precinct Police building in Portland, Oregon on September 6, 2020. - Protestors are marching for an end to racial inequality and police violence. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Race, police and politics: 1964 and now

Robert S. McElvaine
1967-Detroit: Tough-looking Michigan National Guardsmen push rioting Negroes back from a burning building with fixed bayonets on Detroit's riot-torn west side. National Guard tank crews blasted away at entrenched snipers with .50-caliber machine guns early July 26th after sniper fire routed policemen from a square-mile area of the motor city. (Getty Images/Bettmann)

In 2022, here's what matters most

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Two policemen carry stretcher bearing Negro nationalist leader Malcolm X after he was downed by an assassin's bullets at a rally on February 21st. The 39-year-old Malcolm was pronounced dead at the hospital when he was taken for treatment. The assassination of the one-time Muslim official came one week after the bombing of his home on February 13th. (Getty Images / Bettmann / Contributor)

Did the FBI order Malcolm X's murder?

Bob Hennelly
Former US Attorney General Bill Barr (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Bill Barr, the Columbia strike, and me

Joshua Raff
Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, is seen at the Capital riots. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

Expressive politics of the Capitol riot

Ted Morgan
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

Can America's soul be saved?

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
Vietnam War Protesters in front of White House, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, August 1965. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

From a Vietnam protest to prison

Emily L. Quint Freeman
Diptych of a fan flashing the peace sign during the concert marking the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock music festival, and Curtis white author of "Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed" (Author photo provided by publicist/Mario Tama/Getty Images/Salon)

Could the Hippies save Earth?

Keith A. Spencer
Protestors from ADAPT, a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, block the intersection of 15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near the White House for nearly four hours September 20, 2010 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Disability Rights saved my life

Nadina LaSpina
Youngsters head for a school bus in Berkeley, California on Feb. 24, 1970, where a busing program to mix black and white youngsters has been working for 18 months with apparent decline in opposition. (AP/RWK)

Busing in Berkeley: Kamala and me

Andrew O'Hehir
Protesters for women's rights march to the Alabama Capitol to protest a law passed last week making abortion a felony in nearly all cases with no exceptions for cases of rape or incest, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP/Butch Dill)

A concise history of the abortion debate

Treva B Lindsey - The Conversation
A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
FILE - In this June 21, 1967, file photo, a crowd of hippies keep a large ball, painted to represent a world globe, in the air during a gathering at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, to celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, day one of "Summer of Love." (AP Photo, File)

In '68, music failed to seize the moment

Alan Williams - The Conversation
Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock Festival, 1969, New York State

The Sixties: Equality through music

Michael V. Drake - The Conversation
(AP)

"Hey Jude" at 50: Still a masterpiece

Rob Sheffield - Rolling Stone
Donald Trump; Muhammad Ali (Getty/Alex Wong/AP Photo)

Trump's racist Muhammad Ali troll

Amanda Marcotte
A photo of the author taken by John Perry Barlow; John Perry Barlow (Wikimedia/Joi Ito/Salon)

My long strange winter trip with Barlow

James McEnteer
Joe Namath is presented with an award from New York City Mayor John Lindsay on Jan. 22, 1969. (AP)

The rise of "Fun City"

Sean Deveney
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