Just weeks after the Trump Administration claimed book bans were a "hoax," the same administration is purging books from schools run by the Department of Defense Educational Activity, serving 67,000 children of U.S. service members around the world. In addition to Freckleface Strawberry, books flagged for "compliance review" include Vice President JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy according to reporting by Task and Purpose, and a packet of materials about Black History Month for sixth-graders, according to the Washington Post.
Populist and nationalist rhetoric have surged to the center of US politics, but they didn't originate with Donald Trump. Sociologists Bart Bonikowski and Paul DiMaggio identify four types of American popular nationalism dating from the years prior to Trump's political rise -- and they don't fall on a neat continuum from more to less nationalist.
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The demands of United States President Trump at the outset of his second term in office have put the world's largest island into direct conflict with the world's most powerful state. The Trump administration's desire to make Greenland part of the US has caused considerable consternation among the Indigenous population of just 57,000 people -- though this isn't the first time that America has made a bid for ownership of this gargantuan Arctic landmass. Kristian and Henry Neilsen, in their 2021 book Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice, detail an offer of one billion US dollars made to Denmark, which had ruled Greenland under the auspices of the Danish crown since 1814, in December 1946. The United States then, as now, desired control of Greenland to bolster international security against their nuclear foes in Russia.
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I've got two people plonked on opposite sides of the aisle just because they're both too irritating to read. Much pleasanter experience without them.