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A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

11 facts about the Freedom Riders

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
Planet Earth | Red Flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Earth throws up a red flag

Matthew Rozsa
Japanese-Americans Interned at Santa Anita (Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Anti-Asian hate crimes are nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie — and Hitler's

Matthew Rozsa
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The defendants at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. Pictured in the front row are: Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. In the back row are: Karl Dönitz, Erich Räder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel. (Bettman)

The U.S. secret prison that housed Nazis

Heinrich Kreft - The Globalist
Then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announcing his candidacy for governor alongside his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, on May 22, 2010 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Andrew Cuomo and his father: A tragedy

Jim Sleeper
Toasting with green beer (Getty Images)

The curious history of green beer

Ashlie D. Stevens
Alewives in costume sample ale at the site of the Festival Inn, Grundy Street, Poplar in anticipation of Festival of Britain, 1950 (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Women brewers were accused of witchcraft

Laken Brooks - The Conversation
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Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A short history of the filibuster

Matthew Rozsa
The Hagia Sophia stands as a testament to Byzantium’s achievements. (Salvator Barki/Getty Images)

Why QAnon fans love the Byzantine Empire

Roland Betancourt - The Conversation
Time lost in the COVID-19 pandemic year (Getty Images)

A history of how pandemics change us

Matthew Rozsa
Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sir, you're no Grover Cleveland

Matthew Rozsa
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(The back cover of "Copy Art: The First Complete Guide to the Copy Machine," a 1978 how-to guide on copy art.)

How Britain used sex to sell computers

Mar Hicks - MIT Press Reader
Lyndon B Johnson, Joe Biden and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden needs to be more like FDR and LBJ

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump's acquittals are dangerous

Matthew Rozsa
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

Can America's soul be saved?

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
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Conversation heart candies (Getty Images)

Conversation hearts are finally back

Ashlie D. Stevens
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon (Getty Images/Salon)

What's "impeachable" — and what isn't?

Norman Solomon
Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. | Protesters and supporters filter slowly through security onto the National Mall for the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Today Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Protest and "terrorism": 2017 to 2021

David Masciotra
(Illustration by Calvin Shen)

Decline and fall of the American empire

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
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A group of pro-Trump protesters raise a giant America Flag on the West grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

White America at the crossroads

Chauncey DeVega
A protester holds a Trump flag inside the US Capitol Building near the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

No, we can't forget what happened

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald J. Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Neglecting history could bring him back

Jim Sleeper
Storming of the Bastille | Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Image)

From the Bastille to the Capitol

Andrew O'Hehir
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