John Lewis voting rights legacy urged in wake of death
Georgia Democrat John Lewis, a civil rights pillar known for Bloody Sunday, led 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and later helped shape voting rights law. He urged Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act named for him, as the Senate debates protections against discriminatory voting practices.
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Year of Peril: America in 1942 examed by Campbell
The article reviews Tracy Campbell's The Year of Peril describing 1942 as a year of total war, racial strife, and social disruption in the United States. It highlights segregation in the armed forces, internment threats, medical advances like penicillin, wartime rationing and policy shifts, and the era's political and cultural tensions amid a transforming home front and global conflict.
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University of Kentucky
Trump uses the autocrats playbook in the United States
Trudy Rubin compares President Trump's federal policing approach to autocratic playbooks used in Syria Egypt Russia and Hong Kong. She argues the strategy inflames protests fuels fear politics and risks creeping martial law warning leaders to defend democracy and uphold the rule of law.
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