Worth A Glance

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  When conservatives went to war over SF post office murals

  By Gary Kamiya May 31, 2019 In recent years, most of the attacks on public art in San Francisco have come from the left — the fight to remove from Civic…

• Senator Grassley says the New Deal didn’t work; historians have other ideas

  Republished from HistoryChecked with permission of Allen Mikaelian Sen. Charles Grassley: “The New Deal in the 1930s didn’t work. It didn’t get us out of the Great Depression” I would like…

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  The End of History? FDR, Trump and the Fake Past

  Perhaps we are so inured to President Trump’s declarations of “fake news” that we don’t think much about his other methods of disinformation…

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  Iraq, 2003-2004

  Reflections of an American Soldier

• An Earlier Age When the United States Kept Immigrants Out

  By Anna Altman April 24, 2019 [BOOK REVIEW] THE UNWANTED  America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, Hedy Wachenheimer rode…

• How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber Tensions have been brewing at George Washington High School in San Francisco over a series of murals that tell a less than heroic story about America’s first…