Does Working Class Vote Against Itself?
As his first year in the White House draws to a close, Donald J. Trump remains in almost every respect a singular character. He exists well outside the boundaries of what most observers previously judged possible, let alone respectable, in American politics. To...
News From Around the South 1/8 to 1/15
SOUTH CAROLINA: Republicans Want to Build Monument to Black Confederates The proposal by state Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns for the revisionist pro-Confederacy monument on the statehouse grounds flies in the face of the historical record of the era as...
Trump: Race Matters in Immigration Debate
President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. … I cannot believe … any president has ever spoken the words that I … heard our president speak yesterday.” So wailed Sen. Dick Durbin after departing the White House....
Is ‘Fire and Fury’ Fizzling?
The most disappointed people in America this past week must be those Trump execrators who opened their Amazon package only to find that the copy of “Fire and Fury” they had ordered was subtitled “The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945.”...
Racism: Lessons From the South
PHILADELPHIA, MISS. — How does a black man win the highest political office in this majority-white town, infamous for one of the vilest acts of racial violence in modern American history? James Young knows precisely. The chatty, barrel-chested Pentecostal pastor and...Obiter Dicta
The little girl had to go to the bathroom. They went into the cafe, one of a small chain, and Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: He died fighting for America’s independence at 14. He’s only just been identified Thirteen of America’s first ever veterans lie beneath a towering pine forest that was once Read More