Is the Other Party the Enemy?
Just after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a New York Times/Siena poll found that Americans believe polarization is the second most serious challenge facing the nation. (The economy came in first.) As recently as one year ago, fewer than 1% of registered voters...
This SC library is older than the Library of Congress. It has big plans for America’s 250th anniversary
GEORGETOWN, S.C. — South Carolina played a crucial role in the Revolutionary War, and the Georgetown County Library doesn’t want the public to forget it. The library is creating “A Glorious Cause,” an education initiative highlighting the Palmetto State’s...
Trump’s Latest Invitation to Universities
It’s called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” It is anything but. It asks the schools who received Wednesday’s letter to give up their academic freedom and adopt the right-wing partisan platform on education in exchange...
News From Around the South, 9/29 to 10/6
GEORGIA: Georgia’s highest court sides with slave descendants fighting to protect threatened island community Atlanta (AP) — Georgia’s highest court Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of...
Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors?
In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets of Portland, he quietly signed a Presidential National Security Memorandum that purports to federalize policing....Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Bill backed by Confederate monument defenders knocked down in the Georgia House Sponsor argued his bill would protect all monuments, not just Confederate monuments A bill backed by neo-Confederates Read More