South’s Best Barbecue Joints
Each year in our South’s Best poll, we ask our readers to name their picks for the South’s Best barbecue joint in each state. The results have been fairly consistent in recent few years, with a familiar cast of old favorites tending to bubble to the top. There are...
Obama Speaks Out. Where is George W. Bush?
President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump. There is a very nice tradition...
News From Around the South, 4/7 to 4/14
SOUTH CAROLINA: Furman U researchers uncover 1,238 racially restrictive deeds connected to former board chairman In the post-World War 2 era, Alester G. Furman Jr. was in charge of the family’s real estate business in Greenville. A few years later, he served as...
Tariffs and the Constitution
“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.” — Ex Parte Milligan, Supreme Court of the...
Volunteer Archivists Decipher Thousands of Untold Stories from the American Revolution
In 1777, drunken British soldiers stormed into Sarah Martin’s home in Woodbridge, New Jersey and demanded that she cook them ham and eggs. Hostile and impatient, the soldiers threatened to kill her youngest child, who cried as she prepared the meal. One of the...Obiter Dicta
So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn’t challenge President Donald Trump’s executive Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Carolina Day marks 249th anniversary of triumph on Sullivan’s Island SULLIVAN’S ISLAND, S.C. — Saturday is Carolina Day, marking the 249th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island during the Read More