The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ...

Fire fighters use hoses to subdue protestors during the Birmingham Campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. The movement, which called for the integration of African Americans in schools, was ...

Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican who lost his November race for the North Carolina Supreme Court, has created a scene by refusing to concede the race for five months, and recently a 2001 photo ...

At an Ohio rally this month, Donald Trump saluted the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, calling them “unbelievable patriots” and referring to those who’ve been locked up for ...

Events of the last several years have brought to the nation’s attention the corrosiveness to our society of the Lost Cause movement to justify the South’s position on the Civil War. With the defeat of ...

Two-and-a-half years after George Floyd was brutally killed by Minneapolis police, igniting a national wave of social justice protests that washed over the public conscience and seemingly every ...

Echoing Eric Garner, the mantra of the modern civil rights movement remains, “I can’t breathe,” the last words spoken by Garner and then George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who on May 25, 2020, was ...

Just as after the Civil War, desperate attempts to preserve white supremacy are being camouflaged as a valorous fight for a noble end. The US Capitol. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo) By signing up, you ...

Lies are a denomination of power. The bigger the lie, the more power it represents. Right now in this country, we are being treated daily to the Big Lie that Donald Trump was the true winner of the ...

The Lost Cause offered former Confederates and their descendants a salve for the past. According to this mythology about the Civil War, the South was the victim, even in defeat. Confederate armies ...

In the spring of 2005, the Israeli government told the settler families of the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank that they would have to go. Prime minister Ariel Sharon announced it, the ...