Posts By James Sheridan
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Political Education
Rules Are Rules
When asked about athlete Sha’ Carri Richardson’s suspension for marijuana use, President Biden said, “The rules are the rules.” The rules of...
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Labor or Unions
Meet Scabby
President Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan is designed to create union construction jobs. The administration is very supportive of unionization efforts. We can expect...
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Labor or Unions
Good Faith Bargaining
Good Faith Bargaining The Biden administration is committed to economic growth through union jobs. Recent years have seen anti-worker legislation undercut the...
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Politics
The Courage of Ida Wells Barnett
Ida Wells’s Beginnings Ida Bell Wells, daughter of James and Lizzie Wells, was born into slavery during the Civil War on July...
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Political Education
The Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mistrust for the Chicago Police Department
Mistrust for the Chicago Police Department is not new. Let us look at the case of Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton was a...
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Labor or Unions
What Else Does Labor Want?
We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals;more learning and less vice;more leisure and less greed; more justice...
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Political Education
Integrity
Dr. Deborah Birx was responsible for coordinating the previous administration’s White House coronavirus response. She recently made news when she admitted in a...
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Political Education
McCarthyism and the Media
Early news coverage of McCarthy’s charges worked in the Senator’s favor. Newsprint did not capture the wild man image that television did....
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Political Education
Republican Support for McCarthism
Senate Liberals feared that a unified Democratic denunciation of Senator Joseph McCarthy. They feared it would only result in the G.O.P. uniting...
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Political Education
The Liberal Response to McCarthyism
How did liberals respond in the McCarthy era, and how should they have responded? This question is still a source of controversy...