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Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?
While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security...
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SOUTH CAROLINA: North Charleston Community Seeks to Protect HIstoric Roots NORTH CHARLESTON — For lifelong resident Kerry Gambrell, Liberty Hill has...
How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within
Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more a logistical and strategic nightmare. “This was not just a war between Americans and the British,” Burns said in a recent Fresh...
Fallen Confederate Statues Take Center Stage in the Year’s Boldest Show
“Monuments,” a group exhibition in Los Angeles, led by Kara Walker, places contemporary art face to face with statuary removed in the last decade. A...
Book Review: Counting the Cost of Freedom: The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation After the Civil War
In the summer of 1857, abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, at a meeting of the National Emancipation Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, advocated for...
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Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?
While the country's attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" and directs...
How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within
Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more...
From President to Profit
Donald Trump's approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president's performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He's failed to make Americans believe that...
Can the President Tax You?
This week the Supreme Court will begin the process of deciding if the president can impose a sales tax on products and services which originate in foreign countries and are purchased in the United States. The president calls these taxes tariffs. Tariffs are nearly as...
Jailed in America for Free Speech
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats...
