Signing Social Security this Day in 1935 into Law
…communities had always supported each other. The vision of a hardworking man supporting his wife and children was more myth than reality: her own husband suffered from bipolar disorder, making…
…communities had always supported each other. The vision of a hardworking man supporting his wife and children was more myth than reality: her own husband suffered from bipolar disorder, making…
…the identity and ideology of the justices. But that is a myth when it comes to the Supreme Court. Its decisions always have been and always will be a product…
…resolution denouncing “the pernicious myth of dual loyalty and foreign allegiance, especially in the context of support for the United States–Israel alliance” as a form of antisemitism. Omar supported the resolution….
…got out of southern affairs altogether (it’s a myth that the army left the South in 1877). Voters turned so vehemently against the former Confederates trying to impose their will…
…from a high of 9.5% in 2014.” “Plastic recycling remains a ‘myth’: Greenpeace study,” (france24.com), Brendan Smialowski. “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study found that of 51 million tons…
…in Africa was significantly blunted by slavery, with consequences that are still felt today. Reader takes on the settler myth of the violent Zulu under their autocratic leader Shaka. While…
…Bolsheviks and Stalin became the foundational myth that drove that society. In the face of daily evidence that the USSR was fundamentally a terrorist state built mostly by slave labor,…
…Varon established in her book on the surrender at Appomattox, it helped to create the myth that the southern cause had been so noble that even the conquering northern armies…
…Contrary to an often-repeated myth, UAW members at GM, Ford and Chrysler are not paid $73 an hour. The truth is, wages for UAW members range from about $14 per…
…Turns out, far from being splendid, wars were too awful to even think about. WWI dispelled the splendid war myth for all except maybe a few frat boys from Harvard…