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When elections lead to violence

Paul Rosenberg
Nightly Rogue Fireworks Displays Across New York Continue To Bemuse The City (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

A Fourth of July like none before

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush (Getty Images/Salon)

A businessman president? Forget it

Kirk Swearingen
Painting of the Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders of the demonstration and one of the five men killed by the gun fire of the British troops, as he is shot. The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and was a preliminary riot in the War of Independence from the British. (Getty Images)

We need monuments to Black resistance

Jeff Biggers
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Veterans of World War I gather outside the Congressional Library in Washington, to demand the immediate payment of a cash bonus promised to them eight years before, 15th July 1932. | Hundreds of demonstrators walk down 16th street to the White House, during a rally north of Lafayette Square near the White House to protest police brutality and racism, on June 7, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump, Hoover and the protests

Kirk Swearingen
Donald Trump | A disaster response team will provide medical care during the novel coronavirus pandemic | People who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/AP Photo)

Do Americans even care about death?

David Masciotra
Dan Abrams | Boston Massacre (AP Photo/Salon)

How John Adams changed legal history

Dean Obeidallah
This June 5, 1968 file photo shows Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaking his final words to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before he was shot on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel, left, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, right. Football player Roosevelt Grier is at right rear. Associated Press Hollywood reporter Bob Thomas was on a one-night political assignment in June 1968 to cover Kennedy’s victory in the California presidential primary when mayhem unfolded before his eyes. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)

The primary season that changed my life

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
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Climate change and environmental disasters (Getty Images/Roy Scott)

The climate crisis must reunite America

Peter Dale Scott
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Donald Trump (AP Photo/WikiCommons/John Trumbull/John Vanderlyn)

Founders' flaw: They expected decency

David Masciotra
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Impeachment, the Constitution and him

Chauncey DeVega
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren speaking to crowds at their respective rallies. (Photo by Bauzen/GC Images/Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Sanders or Warren — or America's done

Chauncey DeVega
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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Impeachment and historical memory

Henry A. Giroux
Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump and the "one-termers"

Matthew Rozsa
"Washington Crossing the Delaware," (1851) oil on canvas painted by Emanuel Leutze (1816-1868). (Bettmann Archive)

Washington’s Christmas night crossing

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon (Getty Images/Salon)

Impeachment: Clearing up a murky process

Matthew Rozsa
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Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

Donald Trump: Impeached

Shira Tarlo
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 4: Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Wednesday Dec. 4, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

What’s wrong with the Republicans?

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Bill Bar, Devin Nunes, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Will the GOP erase Trump from history?

Amanda Marcotte
An empty classroom (Getty/ martinedoucet)

Teaching impeachment in the classroom

Paula McAvoy - The Conversation
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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Constitution won't save us from Trump

Cody Cain
The First Thanksgiving, 1621 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1863-1930, artist. Published by the Foundation Press, Inc., c1932. Photomechanical print halftone, colour. Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal. (Photo by: (Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The true story of the first Thanksgiving

Matthew Rozsa
Views of the sunken road, known as the "bloody lane", on the Antietam battlefield, where over 5,500 soldiers lost their lives in four hours of combat on September 17 of 1862, as seen on March 26, 2019 in the farmland outside of the small village of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Civil War battlefield has been preserved by the National Park Service as an historical site. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

From battlefields to parks

Todd Lookingbill, Peter Smallwood - The Conversation
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Is meat manly? How food became gendered

Paul Freedman - The Conversation
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