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Barney Frank Speaks

Barney Frank Speaks

Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is...

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The Other Side of the Coin: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the Paradox of Female Power

The Other Side of the Coin: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the Paradox of Female Power

To fully understand the mechanics of female political power in American history, we must also examine the powerful conservative women who marched in exactly the opposite direction from progressive women reformers. This is an under-explored chapter of women’s history that features staunchly conservative, anti-suffrage Southern women who wielded tremendous political and cultural clout. As...

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Barney Frank Speaks

Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is sinking like a rock. That should hurt them, but only so much. The decision of the Virginia Supreme Court to throw out the new map enacted...

News From Around the South, 5/4 to 5/11

SOUTH CAROLINA: USC students are studying Southern history through barbecue A University of South Carolina course is using smoked pork and sauce traditions to teach students about Southern history, culture and civil rights. The semester wrapped up Wednesday at a West...

The Comey Indictment and Free Speech

In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its scope. The Supreme Court employed a particularly narrow approach during much of the last century, through two world wars and then the Red Scare...

The Real King Schools the Would-be King

I've always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least a pinch of smug superiority. The Windsors are revered for nothing more than birth — not talent, nor accomplishments, nor virtue. It's all a throwback to...

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