How the right-wing’s political name game turned what a place is called into an ideological fight
Renaming a place is always an act of power. People in power have long used place naming to claim control over the identity of ...
Public Editor: Why doesn’t ‘The News’ use ‘Gulf of America’?
Still, defying Trump left the AP without access to official White House events, and its journalists can no longer join a ...
Trump doesn't know it, but his protectionist hero, McKinley, ended up changing his stance
COLUMN. To justify his trade war, Donald Trump has referred to former president William McKinley, a protectionist who was in ...
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
It took 40 years to rename Denali from the name established in the late 19th century, Mount McKinley. The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t ...
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Why Is Trump So Obsessed With McKinley?
Cassidy Randall is the author of “Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali.” In 1896, a gold prospector named William Dickey led a journey ...
Rep. Lauren Boebert suggests GOP could rename DC ‘District of America’: ‘Keep the jokes at bay’
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., on Tuesday urged House lawmakers to stop “making fun” of President Donald Trump’s renaming of ...
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Can Trump just order new names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico? A geographer explains who decides what goes on the map
(THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for ...