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Ending the Backlash

Ending the Backlash

"Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center...

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Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More

Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More

The 1990s played host to some of the best-known pieces of Civil War media, from Gettysburg to The Civil War Journal. The decade was a Civil War buff’s dream, and riding this wave into 2000 was the History Channel, which produced the 12-episode series Civil War Combat. Each episode featured historians, such as Ed Bearss and D. Scott Hartwig, discussing some of the war’s bloodiest battles, with...

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Ending the Backlash

"Ending the Backlash on LGBTQI+ Issues" is the title of the report out this week from the respected liberal think tank The Center for American Progress. As you might expect, the Center report urges Democrats to stand firm in supporting transgender soldiers and...

News From Around the South, 7/20 to 7/27

SOUTH CAROLINA: A ‘treasure hunt’ with a purpose: USC students seek clues to university’s untold past A ring of portable yellow barriers surrounds an active worksite at the head of the historic Horseshoe on the University of South Carolina campus. Inside, a handful of...

The American Presidency and Perpetual War

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages...

The Limits of Merit

The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what's considered the most selective of the city's schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were...

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