The Complex Lagacy of a Longtime Racist Restaurant Outside Atlanta
When Aunt Fanny’s Cabin was in its heyday, when socialites and celebrities and presidents (at least the one from Plains) flocked to the outskirts of Atlanta to order “genu-wine Smithfield ham” off menu boards fitted around young Black men’s necks, well-placed white...
Is There a Peace Deal Putin and Zelensky Can Accept?
In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met. Ukraine should cease all military action,...
News From Around the South 3/7 to 3/14
MARYLAND: Confederate Talbot Boys Statue To Be Removed From Courthouse EASTON, MD — After decades of passionate debate, protests and lawsuits over its removal, a Confederate statue’s residence on Maryland’s Eastern Shore will come to an end Monday. The...
The Torturer’s Appprentice
Last week, a bitterly divided Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by a detainee at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba against the Department of Justice because the government claimed the information sought in the case was a state secret, the revelation...
The Hidden Story Behind the North’s Civil War Victory
WAYS AND MEANS Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War By Roger Lowenstein War, it has been said, is the midwife of revolution, an adage that certainly applies to the American Civil War. That conflict not only destroyed slavery, the foundation of...Obiter Dicta
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