Slavery Abolition

For anyone who listens regularly to Rush Limbaugh, they are familiar with his thoughts on the far-left (the "deranged left" as he puts it) redefining America as a racist country founded in racism and also his thoughts on the increasing problems with a college…

Seven years ago today, as the presidential election contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney entered the home stretch, Vice President Joe Biden spoke at three events in Detroit. Biden was in the news that week because of an intemperate assertion that Repu…

As conflict over court-ordered busing roiled his home state, Biden led a crusade against the civil rights measure, later boasting that he made it politically acceptable for other liberals to oppose it. He built alliances with Republican racists like Sen. Jess…

Beto ORourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting. This country, though we would like to think otherwise, he intoned over the weekend, was founded on racism, has persisted through racism and is racist today. This is now a mainstream sentime…

From the novels of Louis LAmour to the high-action western films of the 1950s, western fiction has been dominated by male narratives that focus heavily on the experiences of white, cisgendered, heterosexual men. This comes at the expense of the otherwise rich…

The ongoing crusade against Americas civic rituals and founding values picked up pace this summer. The city council of St. Louis Park, Minn., stopped reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meetings, lest immigrants feel uncomfortable. Nike junked a com…

Who was Walter Bagehot? For generations of politics students he has been the all-but-unpronounceable Bayge-hot? Baggott? author of the magisterial TheEnglish Constitution (1867). Since the 2008 crash he has enjoyed a vogue among central bankers for Lombard St…

David Oyelowo has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like Harriet Tubman -- despite lacking roots to American slavery -- because acting is acting. Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, b…

The California Supreme Court found the city of San Diego didnt properly analyze the potential economic impacts of its 2014 marijuana dispensary rules. Also, The New York Times Magazine explores how slavery created Americas wealth, the U.S. Attorneys Office ma…

The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897 to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. During the first world war it took a more explicitly statist direction, endorsed by the British governments Balfour Declaration of 1917; in…