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.
A supreme court voting rights case could reshape American politics. And we haven't even noticed. And that's not the weird part.
The Pentagon is returning a portrait of General Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
