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MAGA Makes Dramatic Shift After Identity of Killer Surfaces When the facts didn’t match their narrative, Trump and his allies scrambled to rewrite the story.

MAGA Makes Dramatic Shift After Identity of Killer Surfaces

Asymmetrical Decency September 13, 2025

We are experiencing an asymmetrical demand that people react with decency and decorum to the tragic, unforgivable killing of Charlie Kirk—decency and decorum that were missing after acts of violence directed at Democrats.

We Are Not Living Through the 1850s or Headed Toward Another Civil War Earlier this week, The New York Times reported a surge in references to “Civil War” on social media following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

We Are Not Living Through the 1850s or Headed Toward Another Civil War

The Beheading of Stonewall Jackson Artist Kara Walker is using the decommissioned bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from Charlottesville, Virginia, as material for a new art installation.

The Beheading of Stonewall Jackson

Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia Seeing ICE as a coup-proofing corps

Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia

The Trans Panic: How Conservatives Duped Their Phobic Base and Sacrificed a Vulnerable Minority When you understand what motivates people, you can easily manipulate them.

The Trans Panic: How Conservatives Duped Their Phobic Base and Sacrificed a Vulnerable Minority

Trump will restore a Confederate monument in the nation’s capital “A statue honoring a racist and a traitor has no place on the streets of DC,” the city’s congressional delegate said.

Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of the nation’s most notorious oppressors.

Plan to Reinstall Controversial Confederate Statue Prompts Outrage The Trump Administration's decision to restore a controversial Albert Pike statue has provoked outrage and at least one opposition bill.

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New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration My early morning runs in Washington, DC always include a swing around the tidal basin for a quick stop at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. It’s one of my favorite memorials in our nation’s capital.

New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration
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How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters The Albert Pike statue, that President Trump has ordered to be returned to its pedestal in Washington, DC after being pulled down in the summer of 20202, honors a man, who served briefly in the Confed...

How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters

The History and Community That We Stand To Lose A former ranger shares her National Park Service experience.

The History and Community That We Stand To Lose
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New A.I. Helps Historians Decode Ancient Roman Inscriptions | Artnet News Google has launched Aeneas, a new tool designed to help historians contextualize and restore ancient Roman texts.

This New A.I. Tool Could Help Historians Decode Ancient Roman Inscriptions

I’m on the No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? Call
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

NO KINGS Rally today in Chestertown, Maryland, maybe as many as 400 very enthusiastic people attending. American flags everywhere, inspiring speakers and some very creative signs.

Trump Pursues Autocratic Consolidation and a Domestic “Forever War” Crisis time requires a permanent emergency with an enemy that is never defeated

Trump Pursues Autocratic Consolidation and a Domestic “Forever War”