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White Supremacy in the Age of Trump

by Keri Leigh Merritt

Never forget that this country has a long history of upper-class whites using racism to their advantage.


What to do with Confederate statues?

by James Glaser

Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history?


The Civil War, race and the whitewashing of history

by Jonathan Zimmerman

The vast majority of Confederate memorials — including the Lee statue in Charlottesville — were erected in the early 20th century.


Why Does This Georgia Town Honor One of America's Worst War Criminals?

by Greg Bailey

The monument to Confederate officer Henry Wirz is down the road from the graveyard of his many victims.


Who Will Tell Your Story? Probably Not Donald Trump.

by Tim Murphy

Our national monuments are in his hands now.


If an Iranian president talked like Trump we’d think them all nut cases

by Juan Cole

Now it is America’s turn to be ridiculed for having a madman as a president.


Making Affirmative Action White Again

by Ira Katznelson

Any decision to reorient the Civil Rights Division would be based on the fiction that we already possess a level playing field.


The Liberal Crackup

by Mark Lilla

Liberals should reject the divisive, zero-sum politics of identity and find their way back to a unifying vision of the common good.


‘McCarthyism’ Is Wildly Overused—but this Higgins Memo Is the Real Deal

by Ronald Radosh

For Tail-Gunner Joe, it was liberals and communists; for the fired NSC staffer—and for Steve Bannon and others—it’s the left and Islamists. But the attack is exactly the same.


The Two Andrew Jacksons

by Michael Kazin

Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.