Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow
Today’s conflicts over American slavery and Stalin’s Great Terror reveal similar controversies as well as an unknown Putin.
Aug 17, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen
Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump Eric Foner: White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and Donald Trump
The historian and author explains how racism is part of the Trump family DNA.
Aug 16, 2017 / Jon Wiener
Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East? Charlottesville: Is America Becoming the Middle East?
Our neo-imperial wars may be coming home to roost.
Aug 16, 2017 / Juan Cole
Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists Fire the White Supremacists, Topple the Confederate Statues, Crack Down on the Violent Fascists
This is about more than Trump—this is about what America must do. Now.
Aug 16, 2017 / John Nichols
Wanna Save the Planet? Follow the Haida Nation’s Example. Wanna Save the Planet? Follow the Haida Nation’s Example.
Indigenous peoples steward 80 percent of earth’s biological diversity, but need sovereignty to resist corporate plunder. The amazing triumph of the Haida shows how to get there.
Aug 16, 2017 / Mark Dowie
Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis Trump’s Message to the Country: #NotAllNazis
The press conference of August 15th will live in infamy.
Aug 15, 2017 / Dave Zirin
Fight Hate by Standing Up for Immigrants Fight Hate by Standing Up for Immigrants
You can also join the campaign to remove Confederate monuments and learn more about the history of white-supremacy movements in the United States.
Aug 15, 2017 / no-paywall / NationAction
In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again In Charlottesville, It Felt Like the Confederacy Was Trying to Rise Again
But progressives, leftists, and people of conscience were determined not to let the hate warriors get their way.
Aug 15, 2017 / Jordan Green
Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer? Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer?
Sessions’s perverted sense of justice continues to undermine civil rights, not protect them.
Aug 15, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Where we have (mostly) condemned slavery, we as a country have refused to condemn its defenders.
Aug 15, 2017 / Mychal Denzel Smith