Tag: Richard Nixon
The art of the public apology
Ashraf Rushdy, Wesleyan University
Just prior to his sentencing, former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar formally apologized to the more than 160 women whom he’d...
During Vietnam War, music spoke to both sides of a divided...
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
Music is central to Ken Burns’s new Vietnam War documentary, with an original score accompanied by samples of...
Halloween & Election Night: Democracy Intertwined?
"Trump masks are outselling Hillary masks 3-1," said Howie Beige, executive vice president of Rubie’s costume shop in NYC, founded in 1951. “I am definitely surprised by the demand. We will be in production until the last few days before Halloween on these items.… At this point, we’re behind demand.”
The “Rogue Cartoonist” Ben Garrison on What it’s Like to be...
"“Hillary Clinton is the very face of corruption and criminality. It's imperative that she not be rewarded again with the White House for her astonishing amount of egregious misdeeds and criminal acts. She's incompetent. She's an accomplished liar. She's smugly callous. I will con-tinue to expose her all I can.”
The political work of the Confederate flag
Joseph Crespino, Emory University
The Confederate flag may soon be gone with the wind.
It is a remarkable reversal of fortunes for one of America’s most...