Public Safety and the Presidency
President Donald Trump argued last week that as a result of the federal enhancement of police work in Washington, D.C., the city has gone in four days from being the most dangerous in America to being the safest. He cited no evidence but relied apparently on his own...
A new reading of Sherman’s march shows how enslaved people sought to free themselves
A recent book focuses on the experience of those who used the event as an emancipatory movement The story of Sherman’s march to the sea is often remembered for its destruction of the south. Led by the Union general William Tecumseh Sherman through Georgia from 15...
Christopher Yates Pens Must-Read Thriller for the Summer
"The Rabbit Club," the newest novel from Christopher Yates, America's finest writer of thrillers, weaves a tale nearly impossible to put down. It includes Oxford University, secret societies, danger and suspense at every turn, and a sense of anticipation much needed...
News From Around the South, 8/11 to 8/18
NORTH CAROLINA: North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate imagery. The first time Sherryreed Robinson remembers...
The Right to Be Left Alone
What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7? What if this mass surveillance was never authorized by any...
Trump Administration Will Reinstall Confederate Statue in Washington
Albert Pike was a Confederate general and diplomat who negotiated alliances with slave-owning Native American tribes during the Civil War. The Trump administration will restore and reinstall the only statue that had honored a Confederate official in the U.S. capital...
Trump’s White House Renovation Is Awful — And Fitting
On a sunny morning in May 1984, I reported for a job as first lady Nancy Reagan's speechwriter. I drove my Toyota Corolla up to the Ellipse, careful to display the special tag permitting me to park quite close to the East Wing, and ventured inside, past the line of...
News From Around the South, 8/4 to 8/11
VIRGINIA: Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost...
The Runaway Texas Democrats
"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." — Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When the Texas legislature decided to engage in the reapportionment of congressional districts...
Wreck of Revolutionary War frigate resurfaces on Scottish beach
LONDON — Ferocious winter storms are not unusual on the remote island of Sanday, jutting off Scotland’s northern coast. But when a storm buffeted a beach there last year, a long-buried surprise was revealed beneath the sand: A 30-foot-long wooden shipwreck. The...
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NORTH CAROLINA: North Carolina Confederate Monument Goes Too Far, Lawsuit Says A long battle over the pro-slavery words on a Tyrrell County statue intensifies as the Trump administration reclaims Confederate Read More