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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Let’s Fix Our Broken Health Care System
We just went through the longest government shutdown in history over contention regarding renewal of temporarily enacted government subsidies to Obamacare premiums. This battle is not over. Eight Democrats threw in the towel and agreed to postpone the issue and...
News From Around the South, 11/24 to 12/1
TENNESSEE: Battle of Franklin Trust to mark Civil War anniversaries Three Williamson County battlefields are set to mark the 161st anniversaries of two pivotal Civil War conflicts on Saturday and Sunday. The Battle of Franklin Trust will host abbreviated after-hours...
Thanksgiving
It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg's essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real — including grief,but it...
Une fête française: Lowcountry’s connection to the ‘first’ Thanksgiving
BEAUFORT — The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the “first” Thanksgiving are rife with English pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest...
How to Remain Grounded and Thankful Amid the Chaos
In a year marked by political vitriol in seemingly every conversation, a relentless scourge of political violence, and the highest-profile political assassination since 1968, Thanksgiving arrives just in time. Truthfully, it always does. And it always reminds us that...
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