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Rosa Parks
July 10, 2023
Prem Thakker
George Santos Seriously Compares Himself to Rosa Parks
The New York congressman under investigation for fraud somehow thought it made sense to compare himself to the iconic civil rights leader.
March 13, 2017
MagazineJeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
January 6, 2016
Jamil Smith
Ammon Bundy likens himself to Rosa Parks [Corrected].
April 3, 2012
John McWhorter
The Haunting Ordinariness of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman
February 13, 2012
Alec MacGillis
The Catholic Church’s “Rosa Parks Moment”
June 16, 2007
Jeffrey Rosen
Supreme Leader
On the arrogance of Anthony Kennedy
January 30, 1984
Robert Weisbrot
Celebrating Dr. King’s Birthday
January 1, 1970
John Osborne
"What Shall Become of His Dreams?"

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