Should Confederate monuments come down? Here’s what South Africa did after apartheid. Carolyn E. Holmes - August 21, 2018 Editors' note: Last night students at the University of North Carolina at
Democrats and Republicans are increasingly divided on the value of teaching black history Michael Tesler - February 28, 2018 [caption id="attachment_69899" align="aligncenter" width="960"] The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Lots of Americans don’t think slavery caused the Civil War John Sides - November 1, 2017 [caption id="attachment_61567" align="aligncenter" width="960"] White House Chief of Staff John
Last month, 83% of U.S. protests were against Trump Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth - September 28, 2017 This is the eighth installment in a monthly series reporting
Defending Obamacare, cheering President Trump, opposing animal cruelty: Here’s who rallied in July and why. Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth - August 21, 2017 This is the seventh installment in a monthly series reporting
What persuades elected officials to remove Confederate symbols? Framing it as good for business. Jordan Peterson and Christian Grose - August 21, 2017 When white nationalists marched in Charlottesville last week, resulting in
In 2015, Donald Trump said the Confederate flag should go in a museum. Here’s what changed. Michael Tesler - August 18, 2017 Two days after Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy, Dylann
Here’s what white supremacy looks and sounds like now. (It’s not your grandfather’s KKK.) Daniel Kreiss and Kelsey Mason - August 17, 2017 In a remarkable exchange with the press Tuesday about the
NYT columnist Douthat asks: Should we be disturbed that a leading presidential candidate endorses a pro-slavery position? Andrew Gelman - August 29, 2011 A couple weeks ago I was reading the New Yorker
Facial Hair in Everything: Politics Edition Henry Farrell - October 19, 2010 Riffing off both "John's post":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/10/people_the_rent_is_too_damn_hi.html and my current efforts to