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The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war.

Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson are not the only similarities between the two administrations.

The myth of Ike’s nuclear recklessness could lead us into war.

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.

How we got to warnings about fire and fury: the 1983 invasion of the small Caribbean nation of Grenada thousands of miles from North Korea.

There are fewer checks in the system than you might think.

The peninsula has a long record of risky games with great powers.

How Americans got so weird about science.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.

Instead of boosting the American Dream, policies encouraging homeownership exacerbate inequality.

President Trump's tax plan may be "great", but it will likely not be truly transformative.

It ended in disaster.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

Instead of playing on emotions, we need to destigmatize addiction.

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.