Slavery Abolition

Scientists have now produced apparently effective vaccines at sufficient scale to vaccinate most vulnerable populations in the United States in the next few months, and the U.S. population more broadly in the next year. How can the distribution protect the masses without perpetuating inequalities? There are no simple answers but…

Twelve years ago this week, Barack Obama’s pick of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state had everyone in Washington reading (or claiming to read) Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book on Abraham Lincoln’s feuding Cabinet. Judging from his initial choices, Joe Biden’s Cabinet and White House staff can best…

Every human alive should be grateful to live in this twenty-first century—a century that has freed humans from slavery, tyranny, and all other forms of medieval imperfections. We should also be grateful to our democratic system and the existing arms of government for creating limited powers to individuals. The subjective attempt by…

O ttobah Cugoano, the first African to publicly demand total abolition of the slave trade, has become the earliest black historical  figure to be honoured with a blue plaque. The plaque is being installed by English Heritage at Schomberg House, Pall Mall, where Cugoano worked as a servant. London’s blue…

What are we supposed to do with Barack Obama? He’s said at least twice over the course of the publicity tour for his new presidential memoir, A Promised Land, that his ideal reader is a young person.⁠ “Some 25-year-old kid,” he told The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg in an interview published…

Skip to main content HomeCoronavirus Updates2020 Election ResultsElectionsNationWorldPoliticsFactcheckEducationInvestigationsHealthWeatherRace in AmericaImpeachmentJust the FAQsTracking 2020Register to VoteVoter Guide Highlights of this day in history: President Abraham Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address; Egypt's Anwar Sadat becomes first Arab leader to visit Israel; Ford halts Edsel production; Bandleader Tommy Dorsey and actress Jodie Foster born.…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A handwritten copy of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech will be on display for two weeks in a Springfield museum. Officials with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum said it is only one of five surviving handwritten copies. The 1863 speech starts, “Four score and…

President Donald Trump has embarked on a lost cause akin to that embraced by Southerners after the Confederacy was crushed. That historical "lost cause" falsely posited that the U.S. Civil War was fought not to defend slavery, but, rather, to preserve states' rights and their cherished Southern way of life. That was…

Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion protesters have draped a huge banner off the Houses of Parliament today as they called for reparations for slavery. Three demonstrators wearing hi-vis clothing hung the large letter 'to the People of the United Kingdom' from scaffolding outside the building. The note demanded 'an honest…

“The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.”—Donald Trump, November 6, 2012 “The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!”—Donald Trump, November 15, 2016 Every four years, Americans get a little lesson in constitutional law…