Tag: Satire
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AN Open Letter To President Donald J. Trump
Dear Donald, May I call you Donald? You’ve made it quite clear that you would like to win a Nobel Peace Prize before you die… and let’s face it, brother, you’re not looking very good. It’s becoming increasingly clear that you’re not the one pulling the strings anymore on Pennsylvania Avenue. You seem to have…
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America’s Great Leap Forward?
When I teach Global History, we do a unit on Mao’s China. Mao’s vicious incompetence led to the deaths of some 22 million people (at the lowest estimate). He turned the Republic of China (a somewhat democratic state established by Sun Yat-sen) into “The People’s Republic of China,” which is ironically named (footnote here about…