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The Feds and Their Own Bribery
Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does...
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News From Around the South 2/10 to 2/17
SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Native American tribes sign treaty promising to work together The treaty was likely the first of its kind in the country, tribal...

Pentagon moves to restore Fort Bragg name to North Carolina’s Fort Liberty
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved reverting the name of military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Hegseth approved a memorandum Monday to change the name, but with a different namesake. Located just west of Fayetteville, the base was initially named in 1918 after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg. It’s one of the largest military installations in the world by population, with more...

From Slaver to Blockader: USS Nightingale in 1861
In 1861, the United States was desperate for warships. The navy was small, with half its ships deployed overseas and most remaining in the United...

A bloody chapter of the Revolution ended at this historic SC site. Now it will be preserved.
FLORENCE COUNTY — On the walls of the South Carolina Statehouse hangs a moment marking the end of the Revolutionary War — and the conclusion of a...
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The Feds and Their Own Bribery
Normally, when the government asks a judge to dismiss criminal charges against a defendant, the judge will happily do so. This does not occur frequently, but occasionally, the government will reevaluate the strength of its own case and conclude it cannot prove the...
Pentagon moves to restore Fort Bragg name to North Carolina’s Fort Liberty
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved reverting the name of military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Hegseth approved a memorandum Monday to change the name, but with a different namesake. Located just west of Fayetteville, the base was initially named in...
Dear Secretary, Cure Long COVID
You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump. They voted in lockstep (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell, who Trump then ridiculed), and now you are the most powerful man in the world...
News From Around the South 2/10 to 2/17
SOUTH CAROLINA: SC Native American tribes sign treaty promising to work together The treaty was likely the first of its kind in the country, tribal leaders said COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native American tribes will pool their resources and advocate as a group for...
The Myth of Emergency Powers
"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever...