The “Homeland” in homeland security.

I never liked from the beginning the use of the word “homeland” in DHS. Sounded like something out of Nazi Germany. “Heimat” or “Heimland.” This had never been a phrase used in the US.

Steve Kelman
1 min readJul 21, 2020

#DHS #Protests

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Steve Kelman

Harvard Kennedy School professor, does research on improving government performance. also strong amateur interest in China and learning Chinese