Jonathan Zimmerman

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“Father’s Day is like Mother’s Day,” the author Gerald F. Lieberman famously quipped, “except the gift is cheaper. ...

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Charges in Freddie Gray death recall ongoing ordeal of black police

In 1898, African-Americans in Baltimore demanded that the city’s all-white police force hire black officers. The police comm ...

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Free speech in the age of Islamophobia

A few years ago, I invited Pamela Geller to visit the class that I teach about “culture wars” in the United States. Geller ...

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Hilary Clinton and the problem of gender bias

Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for the presidency in a low-key video, featuring Ameri ...

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Is our national pastime past its time?

Rob Manfred, the new commissioner of Major League baseball, is 56 years old. That makes him a year older than the average television view ...

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Let the Confederate flag fly

I’ve always loathed the Confederate flag. It conjures the most hateful dimensions of our past: slavery, segregation, and whi ...

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The politics of St. Patrick’s Day

In 1972, when I was eleven years old, I watched my father march up Fifth Avenue in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade ...

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Jeb Bush was a pot-smoking bully. So what?

A scion of a famously rich and well-connected family goes to a fancy prep school. Partying with his friends and neglecting his ...

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How Presidents’ Day went from patriotism to commercialism

Here’s the first thing you need to know about Presidents’ Day: there’s no national holiday of that name. Under feder ...

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Why does every president need a presidential library?

In 1971, two years after leaving the White House, Lyndon Johnson dedicated his sleek, windowless eight-story presidential library at the ...

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Americans waging jihad overseas seeking only violence and brutality

Poor, unemployed American men go overseas fight in a rag-tag multi-national army. About a third of them die in ba ...

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From the State house to the White House

In 1947, historian Wilfred E. Binkley reviewed the thirteen men who had occupied the White House since the end of the Civil Wa ...

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