Did Hamas merely want to kick-start the statehood process with its barbaric rapes and murders on 1200-plus unarmed men, women, and children on October 7? Not according to a report from Haaretz last week. Hamas leaders had launched the attack expecting to trigger a calamitous and overwhelming conquest of Israel. In fact, they had such […]
It’s time to change the names of two bridges in Maryland, according to the Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County. One bridge is Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Once the bridge is reconstructed, it must be renamed because of Key’s racist legacy. The bridge collapsed in late March when a cargo […]
“Dred Scott” is a landmark decision because it answered questions regarding slavery that the Supreme Court had not previously addressed. It is also one of the most infamous decisions, furthering the great divide facing the nation regarding the question of slavery and moving the country further down the path toward the Civil War. Dred Scott […]
No episode in the American past is more susceptible to such manipulation—manipulation rather than debate—than the Civil War. On the historical question permit me to be blunt and unequivocal. There can be no doubt that slavery was central to all that divided the northern and the southern states, and that slavery was ultimately responsible for […]
Running for office sometimes requires navigating tricky questions without coming across as inauthentic. At a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, presidential hopeful Nikki Haley failed miserably. When asked by an attendee what the cause of the Civil War was, Haley replied after an uncomfortable pause, “Well, don’t come with an easy question, right?” […]
“Don’t come with an easy question,” Nikki Haley jokingly said, but there are few questions easier than this. That’s especially true for a former governor of South Carolina, and one who — to credit Haley — handled a political crisis over the Confederate flag with far more aplomb than we see here. While in New […]
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