The flag is only a visible symptom of the disease that has wracked out society since the end of reconstruction—a disease that is becoming as virulent than ever with power behind it.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation this week that asks ask a question the state should have asked decades ago. That is, should taxpayers continue funding an institution that spent generations celebrating treason in defense of slavery?
Where do we go from here? There is so much to repair and build to return us to where we thought we were. This is an outline for democratic renewal.
The consequences of the Trump administration's sweeping efforts to whitewash American history at the Smithsonian and reactions to it.
Frederick Douglass still has something to say for the current moment. Although these words were written after Lee's death, the bombast is all to present again today.
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology,” including photo of enslaved man’s scars.
Political violence, memory, and the danger of historical revisionism.
We live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that Lincoln’s partisan political descendants, the modern Republican Party, wants to destroy it.
A Senator just unapologetically declared that America isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone. Just certain types, Guess.
The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be. A roundtable discussion among leading MAGA intellectuals suggests they might be suffering from success.
