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Princeton University is removing Woodrow Wilson's name from its School of Public and International Affairs. The school's board of trustees said, "Wilson's racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake."

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Princeton To Remove Woodrow Wilson's Name From Public Policy School

8:02pm June 27, 2020

by Jason Slotkin

Princeton trustees voted to remove Wilson's name from the School of Public and International Affairs. The board said, "Wilson's racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake."

The Capitol of Puerto Rico, Capitolio de Puerto Rico, in San Juan. Puerto Rico is under federal control, but isn't allowed voting representation in Congress, and residents can't vote for president.

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Puerto Ricans Reflect On A Century Of (Limited) Citizenship

5:04pm March 02, 2017

by Greg Allen

People born in Puerto Rico have been counted as U.S. citizens since 1917, but residents of the island can't vote for president and don't have voting representation in Congress.

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Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) addresses a political meeting in New York in 1912.

Politics & Government

Before Bernie Sanders, There Was This Socialist Candidate

3:46pm November 17, 2015

by M.L. Schultze

Eugene V. Debs, who went to prison for his socialist beliefs, gave a famous speech in Ohio in 1918 urging resistance to the World War I draft.