Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Donald Trump’s relationship with the media has always been a spectacle—loud, antagonistic, and unapologetically aggressive. But beneath the chaos lies a deeper, more calculated strategy. What appears as spontaneous outrage or off-the-cuff belligerence is often carefully designed to serve a broader purpose: manipulating public discourse to normalize extremist policies. This tactic isn’t new to authoritarian…
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Once upon a time, America assassinated its changemakers with bullets. They killed Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.—leaders who dared to call the nation to a higher moral ground. But physical violence has a cost. It leaves martyrs and monuments. So today’s power structure has evolved. In the age of media saturation and…
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If you missed it live, I joined education advocate and host Leonie Haimson on WBAI’s “Talk Out of School” to sound the alarm on a growing threat to American education. This wasn’t your average policy chat—it was a serious conversation about how Donald Trump and his political allies are dragging education into a new Dark Age, dismantling the very pillars…
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Across the country, we’re witnessing an unprecedented and highly coordinated campaign to undermine public education, suppress civil rights protections, and target historically marginalized communities under the false banners of “freedom” and “parental rights.” At the center of this movement is a push to defund and dismantle the U.S. Department of Education—the federal agency charged with enforcing…
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On Sunday, April 20 at 7 PM EST, I’ll be joining Leonie Haimson on WBAI 99.5 FM’s Talk Out of School to discuss one of the most urgent questions facing American public education today: Is Trump forcing education into a new Dark Age? That’s not just a rhetorical question. It’s a serious inquiry into the political and ideological project underway—a…
Cloaking Inequity 