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During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...
Vivek Ramaswamy’s comparison of Gavin Newsom to George Wallace is ludicrous. Like his lionization of Richard Nixon, it betrays an ignorance of history, and some moral blindness as well.
President Lyndon Johnson was the last president to bypass a governor in deploying the National Guard, going over the head of then-Gov. George Wallace.
It has been 60 years since a president has deployed the National Guard without the cooperation of a governor. The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to ...
As Elon Musk threatens to float a new political party in protest against Donald Trump's massive spending bill, the spotlight ...
I’m a media historian who has written about television and the civil rights movement. One of the remarkable ... a dozen legislators spoke on the floor of Congress linking Alabama Gov. George Wallace ...
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And speaking of morality, how about the chutzpah of Ramaswamy in comparing Trump’s mass-deportation plans to the civil-rights movement?
A Thank You to EW I wanted to thank you for printing your feature on gun ownership by Eve Weston (EW, 6/19) and add a bit of important information I received when I went through the Women’s ...