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Good for the Jews? No.
I probably don't agree with anything Mahmoud Khalil has to say about Israel. He's the Columbia University student activist who has...
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News From Around the South, 3/10 to 3/17
GEORGIA: A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain's Confederate monument Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux...

How Racial Realignment Ignited the Culture War
How did Americans become politically divided on culture war topics like guns, abortion, women’s role, gay rights, and environmentalism? The common story is that it took polarizers from the top: politicians and activists associated with each party moved the public to their respective sides. But Neil O’Brian finds that the culture war followed America’s racial realignment because racial attitudes...

Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?
Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division...

This Group of Veterans is Finding Peace in an Unlikely Place: a Camden Revolutionary War Battlefield
CAMDEN — A below-freezing wind chill, weeks of rain and manual labor might seem like a lot of work to recover an ounce of lead from the ground. But...
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News From Around the South, 3/10 to 3/17
GEORGIA: A new push to change Georgia law concerning Stone Mountain's Confederate monument Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for years. The...
Good for the Jews? No.
I probably don't agree with anything Mahmoud Khalil has to say about Israel. He's the Columbia University student activist who has been arrested and threatened with deportation in the name of fighting antisemitism. Trampling on free speech rights is no way to fight...
How Racial Realignment Ignited the Culture War
How did Americans become politically divided on culture war topics like guns, abortion, women’s role, gay rights, and environmentalism? The common story is that it took polarizers from the top: politicians and activists associated with each party moved the public to...
Want to Soak the Rich? Tax University Endowments
Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion college endowments....
News From Around the South, 3/3 to 3/10
NORTH CAROLINA: Bragg to Liberty and back Again: Ceremony Rechristens Army Post Once Named for a Confederate FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The short-lived existence of Fort Liberty came to an end Friday when the nation’s largest Army installation officially returned to...