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America: Melting pot or a salad bowl?

Simon Greer - Independent Media Institute
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Trump's fake patriotism will win votes

Lucian K. Truscott IV
"The Socialist Manifesto" by Bhaskar Sunkara; An 11-panel mural depicting Maine's labor history. (Basic Books/AP/Clarke Canfield)

When Americans were communists

Bhaskar Sunkara
Donald Trump; John Adams (AP/Getty/Salon)

Trump: Exactly what John Adams feared

Dean Obeidallah
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The Ku Klux Klan protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Getty/Chet Strange)

Legacy of racial terror: 1898 and now

Wiley Cash
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega
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America needs a new national story

Jim Sleeper
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963; Justice for Freddie Gray protest on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland (Hulton Archive/Andrew Burton)

Despair, justice and Black History Month

Chauncey DeVega
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Howard Schultz (Getty/Joshua Lott)

Howard Schultz: Enemy of democracy?

Carl Pope
Donald Trump; Thomas Jefferson; Woodrow Wilson; Ronald Reagan (AP/Getty)

Trump's SOTU fiasco is unprecedented

Matthew Rozsa
Timothy Snyder; Government Shutdown Protest (AP/Getty/Salon)

Timothy Snyder: Trump is the emergency

Chauncey DeVega
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America on the brink: Happy New Year?

Andrew O'Hehir
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Reevaluating Thanksgiving

Robert Jensen - Alternet
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Making America’s wars great again

Arnold R. Isaacs - TomDispatch.com
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America veers closer to old Britain

J.M. Opal - The Conversation
Robert Meister (YouTube)

Using finance to create justice

Patrick Lawrence
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Fraklin Roosevelt signing the declaration of war on Dec. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

Why America won't declare war

Matthew Fay
Before the fire (Debbie Hennelly)

Reckoning with American history

Bob Hennelly
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Salon)

Frederick Douglass: Hope on the Fourth

Chauncey DeVega
Harry S. Truman; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; George W. Bush; Donald Trump (AP/Getty)

Trump: End of a long process

Paul Rosenberg
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The author and his brother laying a wreath on Jefferson’s grave at the family reunion in 1953. (courtesy of the author)

Slavery at Monticello acknowledged

Lucian K. Truscott IV
A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator, defying an anti-parade ordinance of Birmingham, Ala., is attacked by a police dog on May 3, 1963. (AP/Bill Hudson)

Donald Trump's empire of darkness

Chauncey DeVega
FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2008 file photo, author Philip Roth poses for a photo in the offices of his publisher Houghton Mifflin, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

Roth, the great Jewish-American novelist

Brett Ashley Kaplan - The Conversation
The small city of Hazard, Ky., shown Tuesday, May 26, 2015, nestled in the heart of the coal fields of Appalachia and is at the heart of an injection drug use problem in the region. Public health officials warn if the region doesn't get the problem under control, it's likely to see a Hepatitis C or HIV outbreak. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Native identity erased from Appalachia

M.W. Flash Clark - 100 Days In Appalachia
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