The President’s Immigration Policy Is ‘Beyond Inhumane’ - Absorbing the news about the brutal treatment of detainees, to say nothing of the outright murder of “suspected” drug runners in the Caribbean, I think back to a conversation I had in February of this year. My interlocutor was a Trump voter who had just had a friendly encounter with an African immigrant striver — […]
Civil War wrecks vanish, then drone finds buried ‘anomalies’ on land, SC data shows - Shipwrecks frequently get lost, but a search for four missing Civil War blockade runners off South Carolina has come to the unusual conclusion that at least three are now buried on land. The fourth one is still unaccounted for off Fort Moultrie, but it’s also likely buried, according to the S.C. Maritime Research Division. “Historical […]
Summers Is Not the Biggest Reveal From the Epstein Emails - If you followed the twists and turns of the Jeffrey Epstein saga over the last few weeks, you already know that several prominent names emerged from the tranche of emails that the Epstein estate released. Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers, who exchanged scores of emails with the convicted pedophile, has seen his […]
News From Around the South, 12/1 to 12/8 - FLORIDA: Bill establishing Black History Museum Board clears Senate hurdle Will 2026 be the year? With Florida’s Museum of Black History soon taking shape in St. Johns County, state lawmakers are moving closer to setting up a board to run it. Sen. Tom Leek’s legislation (SB 308), which would create an Administrative Board to oversee the museum’s construction, operation, and […]
New biography examines Preston Brooks, the SC congressman behind an infamous Senate floor beating - Nearly 170 years after South Carolina congressman Preston Brooks raised his cane and beat abolitionist Charles Sumner bloody on the Senate floor, the pro-slavery lawmaker behind one of America’s most notorious acts of political violence is getting a full-length biography. Historian Paul Quigley widens the lens in his new examination, “The Man Behind the Cane: Preston […]
