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  • 12/13/2020

    Senator Mike Lee Disregards History While Claiming to Support American Unity

    by Matt Chumchal

    Senator Mike Lee this week claimed proposed museums dedicated to the history of women and Latino/as in America would foster division by ethnicity and sex. A biology professor shares an experience with the new National Museum of African American History and Culture and argues that the proposed museums are in fact needed to create the understanding needed to forge unity.

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    10/9/2020

    Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy

    Senator Mike Lee's recent insistence that the US is "a republic, not a democracy" recall the antidemocratic vision of John C. Calhoun, says columnist George Packer. 

  • SOURCE: Bloomberg Opinion
    10/8/2020

    Yes, Mike Lee, America is a Democracy

    by Jonathan Bernstein

    Mike Lee's insistence that the US is "a republic" and not "a democracy" is a petty distinction that ignores the historically interchangeable usage of the terms in American politics in order to justify undemocratic rule by a minority party.