Jonathan Zimmerman
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Last month, Delta Airlines posted a tweet congratulating the United States for defeating Ghana in the World Cup. The tweet featured two i ...
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ListenLonging for a Fourth of July with fewer fireworks and more equality
I have a confession to make, my fellow Americans. I love my country, but I really don’t like the Fourth of July. ...
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ListenPrisoner exchange is an American tradition
America is exchanging prisoners with the enemy! It’s an outrage! That’s been a constant refrain of GOP critic ...
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ListenTiananmen and the erasure of history
The Chinese government employs falsehood and terror to blot out the memory of the murders in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago. And the econo ...
11 years ago
Television weather forecasts should get serious about climate change
According to the American Meteorological Society, we have “unequivocal evidence” that “human activities” — espe ...
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ListenIs revoking invitations to controversial college commencement speakers the new McCarthyism?
In 1949, Wayne State University blocked an invited speaker from appearing on campus. The speaker was Herbert Phillips, and the reason was ...
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ListenDonald Sterling and the end of privacy
Over the past few years, my fellow liberals have loudly decried the erosion of individual privacy in America. ...
11 years ago
ListenSchool holidays and religious ignorance
When he was campaigning for mayor of New York City, where one of eight public school students is Muslim, Bill de Blasio pledge ...
11 years ago
ListenThe death penalty, politics and the Boston Marathon bombing
Should accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev receive the death penalty? As the one-year anniversary of the April 21 Mar ...
11 years ago
ListenWhy we don’t need political dynasties
We tell the world that we’re a land of opportunity, where anyone can grow up to be the president. Then we limit ourselves to ...
11 years ago
ListenWhen money talks, bigotry walks
Check out those homophobes in Arizona! They’re like white racists in the Jim Crow South! So declared a chorus of my fellow l ...
11 years ago
ListenCalling all professional historians – ‘come out of the ivory tower’
“Professors, We Need You!” So declared a ...
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