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David Niose

David Niose is author of Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason. He serves as legal director of the American Humanist Association. Twitter: @ahadave

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Last year on Memorial Day: Trump signals that America is “susceptible to fascist appeals”

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Mike Carlson)

Our Memorial Day collision course with fascism: Donald Trump and the new American militarism

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Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)

This is one weak nominee: Hillary Clinton’s problem isn’t Bernie Sanders. It’s Hillary Clinton

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Donald Trump supporters recite the pledge of allegiance at a campaign stop at Concord High School, Jan. 18, 2016, in Concord, N.H. (AP/John Minchillo)

The pledge of allegiance must go: A daily loyalty oath has become a toxic, nationalistic ritual

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Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell at the Baptist Fundamentalism '84 conference, April 13, 1984 in Washington. (AP/Ira Schwarz)

The religious right is neither: The real history of how decades of radical, violent rhetoric led to the Planned Parenthood shooting

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