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Columbus Day
October 12, 2020
Laurel Emanuel, Nick Martin
How I Found My Voice as the Only Native Student in My Class
I pushed my local school board to adopt Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It was a real victory—but only a first step.
March 19, 2013
David Greenberg
Agit-Prof
Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history
October 15, 2011
Walter Shapiro
The Truth About Occupy Wall Street: It’s Much Smaller Than It Seems
March 12, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
'We Will Likely Vote Friday or Saturday'
October 13, 2009
Noam Scheiber
Geithner and Summers, From the Baseline
January 6, 1992
Simon Schama
Christopher Columbus Was Both a Crusader and a Villain
But his story is too complicated to only use dichotomies.
February 3, 1986
Taylor Branch
Uneasy Holiday
How should we honor a man we still don't know?

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