Political, social, and demographic forces in the battleground of North Carolina promise a reckoning with its Jim Crow past.
A report card on Iraq; why gambling is good for business; the Muslim passion for Mel Gibson; winners and losers in the modern marriage pool
What America a century ago can teach us about the moral consequences of economic decline
More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
Why does the U.S. Army name its bases after generals it defeated?
The newly released film Copperhead is in the same tradition as Gone with the Wind and Gods and Generals. Its history is highly revisionist.
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