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“The Donald” campaigning for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. REUTERS/Brian Frank

How Fox News and Donald Trump are impacting the GOP

Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University

Fox News and its embrace of the Donald is pulling our national conversation – and the 2016 Republican campaign – to the right.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Run Bernie run … but why?

Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University

What is up with Bernie Sanders? No chance that he would win the primary, much less the presidency. But there is a long history of outsider candidates who have impacted American politics.
In 1984, British LGBT rights groups worked on behalf of striking miners. Flickr

Shared pride, then and now

Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University

The film Pride, which won the Queer Palm Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is based on the true story of what seems to be a rare occurrence in human history: two oppressed groups (in this case…
What difference will President Obama’s executive order make for this family? Sandy Huffaker/Reuters

The president’s executive order: what difference will it make for immigrants?

Katharine Donato, Vanderbilt University; Alina Das, New York University; Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University; Elizabeth Lee Young, University of Arkansas; Eric Segall, Georgia State University; Helen Marrow, Tufts University; Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine; John Logan, Brown University; Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University; Susan M. Akram, Boston University, and Vincent T Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College

Editor’s note: On November 20, President Obama announced a plan - through an executive order - to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation if they meet certain criteria. His move has…

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