Letters and Politics

Trump to Deploy Troops to the Mexican Border. Then, The Online Culture Wars

President Trump signed a proclamation to deploy National Guard troops the US southern border in an apparent retaliation to a caravan of about a thousand people moving through Mexico.  According to some reports, about 80% of the people on the caravan Pueblo Sin Fronteras are women and children fleeing violence from their country of Honduras.

To talk about this turmoil and the recent history of Honduras in which the United States has played a significant role Mitch Jeserich talks to historian Dana Frank. She is a professor of history a the University of Santa Cruz.

 

Then The Online Cultural Wars with Angela Nagel, author of the book Kill All Normis: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.

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