Jonathan Zimmerman

America’s mythical Africa

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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Longing 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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Prisoner 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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Tiananmen 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 ...

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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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Is 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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Donald Sterling and the end of privacy

Over the past few years, my fellow liberals have loudly decried the erosion of individual privacy in America. ...

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School 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 ...

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The 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 ...

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Why 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 ...

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When 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 ...

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Calling all professional historians – ‘come out of the ivory tower’

“Professors, We Need You!” So declared a ...

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