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Lesson Plan: Should You Fly in the U.S. Now?

March 26, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

Fasten Your Seatbelts, Flying Already Sucks. Trump Just Made it Even Worse. Reich, Robert. “Flying Already Sucks. Trump Just Made

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Lesson Plan: Would You Apply for a “Backup Passport”?

March 24, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

After Canada relaxed parts of its citizenship-by-descent rules in December 2025, many Americans began combing through their family trees to

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Lesson plan; immutable full documentary

March 11, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

FULL DOCUMENTARY: Immutable is a feature length documentary following students in the Washington D.C. Urban Debate League as they discover

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Lesson plan: Watergate (Nixon) and the Epstein Files (Trump) — accountability, disclosure, and the politics of “missing records”

February 27, 2026 Ann S. Michaelsen

In a dramatic U-turn, US President Donald Trump on Sunday called for Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to release all

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Lesson Plan: The Politics of Plaques — Public Memory, Rhetoric, and Media Framing

December 18, 2025 Ann S. Michaelsen

Lesson overview Students analyze reporting on new, highly partisan plaques added to a White House “Presidential Walk of Fame,” a

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