Trump’s promise of an insurmountable barrier between the U.S. and Mexico is an exercise in proven futility, writes Greg Grandin in this guided tour of fortification efforts over several decades.
Tag: U.S. History
America’s Complicated Relationship with International Human Rights Norms
‘Hostiles’ and Hollywood’s Untold Story
The Right’s Second Amendment Lies
Assault on the Embassy: The Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later
Trump’s Fragile Grasp of History
Standing Up for Lessons of Dissent
There is a general belief that Americans don’t care much about history, preferring to bask in self-reverential “exceptionalism” with U.S. behavior beyond criticism. But students outside Denver are taking to the streets to protest right-wing efforts to strip dissent from the history curriculum, writes…