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Georgia Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock is pastor of the church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

The “gentrification-industrial complex” isn’t who anti-growth progressives think it is.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.

There is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.

A series of illustrated children’s books endures as a classic. Was it also the author’s attempt to come out?

The word “Plymouth” may conjure up visions of Pilgrims in search of religious freedom, but that vision does not reflect reality.

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.

Regina Bradley searches for truths about her great-grandfather and his murder.

An elaborate secret life was a necessity for children’s author Louise Fitzhugh.

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

Trump fans are better off as Americans.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.

From Kentucky to Wales and all across the Atlantic, the enslaved and downtrodden got married – by leaping over a broom. Why?

The sale of the singer-songwriter’s catalogue is a reminder of his massive cultural legacy.

Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .

It was less about their asceticism and more about rejecting the world they had fled.

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

Early in its history, the candy company made a strategic move to find its most successful market.

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

The rise and fall of Perry Miller.

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.

Socialised investment and the spectre of full employment.

Any effective soul-searching must take into account the history of white American Christian support for white supremacist power.

The experience of feeling in the archive.

Ukulele Ike, otherwise known as Cliff Edwards, was a major American pop star and an important early force in jazz. It’s time to give him another hearing.

The gadget that taught the world to socially distance.

We’re still dealing with the repercussions of a discredited 1998 study that sowed fear and skepticism about vaccines.

The intersecting lives of robber barons and floundering French aristocrats.

Michael Lobel on Confederate memorials and the history of “degenerate art."

We haven’t built many memorials to panics, recessions, or depressions, but maybe we should.

Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.

Reckoning with our past is crucial to getting buy-in for the vaccine.

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

Black women in Georgia have shaped local and state politics for more than a century.

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust requires confronting those arguments head on.

Tracing the twisting path of a resistance slogan, from the Nazis to the hippies to Trump.

The confluence of Black and Indigenous history at Bdote.

The murders in Duluth offered yet another example that the North was no exception when it came to anti-black violence.

The controversial version of the U.S. flag has been hailed as a sign of police solidarity and criticized as a symbol of white supremacy.

How municipal debt contributed to the development of white America and underdevelopment of Black America.

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.