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Jonathan Zimmerman

Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of  “Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford University Press)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and former President Reagan during three days of summit talks, 1987; President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive to a joint press conference after their summit, 2018. (AP/Doug Mills/Getty/Chris McGrath)

Donald Trump has abandoned Reagan’s legacy on defense: Can Democrats capitalize?

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Robert Mugabe (AP/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

With Mugabe out, time to end sanctions against Zimbabwe? Not so fast

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Trump, Charlottesville and the perils of “cultural relativism”

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Don’t tape our teachers: Why surreptitious recording in the classroom isn’t OK

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Donald Trump; Harry Truman (AP/Mark Humphrey/Salon)

Donald Trump’s transgender ban vs. Harry Truman’s desegregation order: A backward echo of the past

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Laura Kipnis; Betsy DeVos (Macmillan/Getty/Alex Wong)

Sexual violence on campus must not be tolerated — but using Title IX as a censorship tool is not the answer

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Schools, lies and Donald Trump: Teachers must resist emulating our fact-challenged president

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An anti-semitic cartoon from Judge magazine. (Wikicommons)

Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America

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Phyllis Schlafly (AP/Cliff Owen)

Phyllis Schlafly and the global right: Conservatives who denounce globalism easily gloss over her influence in the movement

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Colin Kaepernick (Reuters/Jake Roth)

Colin Kaepernick and American freedom: The quarterback’s protest exemplifies what our nation stands for

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Fireworks go off after the Olympic flame was extinguished during the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP/David Goldman)

Enough with the world tour: Bring the Summer Olympics back home to Greece

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Donald Trump (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

“Where is our ‘Donald Trump’ when we need one?”: The GOP nominee, as Africans see him

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A photo of the author.

Requiem for the backpacker: Today’s youths risk missing out on the joys of spontaneous travel

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Muhammad Ali (AP/Charles Harrity)

Muhammad Ali’s real legacy: From fanaticism to tolerance

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Donald Trump, Richard Nixon (AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Photo montage by Salon)

Donald Trump’s not-so-silent majority: His backers — extreme and embodying violence — are everything Nixon deplored

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