Slavery Abolition

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump and some who want him impeached are trading accusations of treason" and threats to national security amid warnings from analysts that such language could fuel irreparable harm to the nation's civil and political fabri…

This is an excerpt of The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite Americas Past, out today and available to purchase wherever you buy books. Weighing in on the debate over Confederate statues in 2017, President Donald Trump said to reporters, George Washin…

Impeachment talk has been ongoing since President Donald Trump first stepped into office.   Democrats in Congress, moving on from the Russia collusion allegations, have now launched an attempt to bring up impeachment over a phone call between Trump and Ukrai…

Detail of “The Death of Socrates” by Jacques-Louis David. You could be forgiven (but whats the fun in that), if you were to think. Looking at Jacques-Louis Davids neoclassical painting The Death of Socrates, you could believe youre seeing Socrates giving the…

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In the next few years, many Americans understand, the Supreme Court may provide answers to some of the most hotly contested questions of constitutional law—the scope of affirmative action and federal power, for example, or the future of Roe v. Wade. What fewe…

First annual picnic of the Knights of Labor, 1882. (Niday Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo / Joseph Keppler) All men are created equal. Today, it is difficult to appreciate the radicalism of Thomas Jeffersons almost matter-of-fact pronouncement in the Dec…

Americas Constitution was once celebrated as a radical and successful blueprint for democratic governance, a model for fledgling republics across the world. But decades of political gridlock, electoral corruption, and dysfunction in our system of government h…

Getting outside the four corners Getty The Reading Wars are a series of debates about how best to teach reading to small humans, and while the intensity of the debates themselves ebb and flow, the dates have been raging for only slightly fewer years than th…

Jerome Braun writes in interdisciplinary social science with some emphasis on culture and personality and on democracy from a cross-cultural perspective. He was a Research Student in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics, which resulted in hi…