Tag: Politics in the Classroom
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2026 Midterms: Drawing Lines for Power
The article discusses the implications of gerrymandering and population shifts leading to potential changes in congressional representation by 2030. It emphasizes the need for House expansion to improve representation and reduce gerrymandering efficacy.
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The Beautiful Game’s Complicated Summer: What the 2026 FIFA World Cup Really Means for America
The 2026 FIFA World Cup arrives with big economic promises and bigger complications — from pricing out fans and erasing a Dallas mural to renamed stadiums and sluggish hotel bookings. A civic educator’s look at the costs of hosting.
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Quote Of The Day
It’s a great day during the civil rights and civil liberties unit to talk about the time that Supreme Court Justice Brandeis quotes Pericles’s funeral speech to be able to explain Thomas Jefferson’s ideas as to why he wrote Virginia’s bill on the independence and freedom of religion. Because at its core, all three men…
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The Long Ledger: Part 1
The economic motivations behind conflicts from 1914 to 1945 shaped wartime decisions, international relations, and postwar policies, revealing deeper motivations beyond ideological narratives.
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The Long Ledger: Part 2
The Shell Game Cold War Geopolitics and the Redistribution of Colonial Wealth, 1945–1991 The Cold War is usually taught as a clash of ideologies, and the ideologies were real. Liberal democracy and Soviet communism were genuinely incompatible visions of how human society should be organized, and both superpowers believed, at least partly, in what they…
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The Long Ledger: Part 3
Free Markets as Foreign Policy Trade Agreements, Capitalist Hegemony, and the Limits of Economic Freedom, 1991–2008 When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, something unusual happened in Western intellectual life: a significant number of serious people decided that history had ended. Not literally, of course, but in the sense that the great contest of…
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