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Civil War

  1. historic disappointments
    Robert E. Lee Statue-Makers Troll Us Via Time CapsuleWhat we were promised: an ultra-rare picture of Lincoln in his coffin. What we got: a soggy photo of some guy who was never even president.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. juneteenth
    America’s Hollow Embrace of JuneteenthHow a commemoration of Black liberation became a favorite holiday of corporations and lawmakers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  3. capitol riot
    Could the 14th Amendment Ban Trump From Holding Office Again?Even if a Trump political comeback isn’t blocked by impeachment, his incitement to insurrection may make him subject to a ban meant for Confederates.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. racism
    No, Uncle Joe, Trump Is Hardly Our First Racist PresidentTrump may rival the most racist of presidents given the context of their times, but he hardly invented presidential racism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. portland
    Cotton Compares Portland’s Graffiti Artists to the ConfederacyEven more than Trump, Tom Cotton has never seen an incident of civil unrest that he wouldn’t like to escalate into civil war.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. what’s past is prologue
    What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday?The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. george floyd protests
    The Army Is Finally Taking the Names of Traitors Off of Its BasesAmerica may finally be repudiating the idea that the Confederacy — and the Neo-Confederacy — were honorable parts of the national legacy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. drunk history
    The Pandemic Has Led to an Outbreak of Terrible Historical AnalogiesTrump and his allies are using the coronavirus to warp history. We can’t ignore their delusions.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. impeachment
    Pence Is Right: Trump Is a Lot Like Andrew JohnsonPence embraces the discredited Jim Crow theory of Johnson’s victimization and Reconstruction’s evil. But Trump does emulate his scofflaw behavior.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. politics
    How Close Is the U.S. to Civil War? About Two-Thirds of the Way, Americans SayThe country is divided and people think it’s headed to a bad place.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  11. impeachment
    What We Can Learn From the First Presidential ImpeachmentLike Trump, Andrew Johnson defied Congress and the Constitution in multiple ways that were hard to capture in articles of impeachment.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. racism
    Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still DoesInstead of complaining about greater recognition of racism in American history, conservatives should realize it has been their enemy, too.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. neo-confederacy
    VA Secretary Once Gave Speeches Lionizing Racist Arch-Traitor Jefferson DavisHaving an apparent member of the neo-Confederacy heading the agency that tends to those who served the country Davis tried to destroy is not good.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. 2018 midterms
    Dixieland’s Favorite Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Sported Confederate Garb in 2014The GOP senator who keeps saying racially offensive things saw nothing wrong with donning Confederate garb at Jefferson Davis’s home.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. documented
    The Photographer Who Documents the Former Sites of Confederate MonumentsArtist Matthew Shain set out to capture the pedestals where they once stood.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  16. the national interest
    Sanders Claims Kelly Learned Civil War Nonsense From Ken Burns. She’s Right.We would like to believe that nice Ken Burns could not depict the same ideas as nasty John Kelly.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. Trump Tweets His Way Into the Virginia Governor’s RaceThe same day a new poll shows the Democratic candidate taking a big lead.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. No, Impeaching Trump Would Not Reverse the 2016 ElectionsIf Trump were to be removed from office via impeachment, the GOP would continue to rule with much the same policies. So why all the talk of a “coup?”
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Robert E. Lee Monuments Are Symbols of Neo-Confederacy, Not the ConfederacyMonuments that went up to celebrate the white supremacist triumph in successfully setting up Jim Crow should come down now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. How Much Do Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson Actually Have in Common?▶️ “Had Andrew Jackson been around a little bit later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart.”
    By Granger Willson
  21. Trump’s Absurd Civil War Comment and the Limits of Deal-MakingHis belief that wheeling and dealing could have solved the conflict over slavery shows a dangerous lack of principle.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Reaction From Right to Dallas Massacre: Trump Is Measured; Others Not So Much“Civil war” hysteria breaks out in some conservative quarters after massacre of police in Dallas, but so far Donald Trump’s being remarkably restrained.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. grand exits
    Columnist George Will Has Left the Republican Party Because of Trump“This is not my party.”
    By Chas Danner
  24. Top GOP Donors Bemoan Trump at Elite SummitThey helped raise more than $1 billion for Romney in 2012. Now they are considering putting “country first, party second.”
    By Chas Danner
  25. civil war
    Anti-Trump Republicans Are Still Plotting an Independent Presidential Run#NeverTrump4Ever?
    By Chas Danner
  26. Tech Tips for the Avengers, Who Have Never Seen a ComputerJust Dropbox it, you guys.
    By Brian Feldman
  27. republican party
    As Trump Pans Republican Party Unity, Palin Targets Paul RyanJust another 24 hours in the national implosion that is the Trump-era GOP.
    By Chas Danner
  28. gallery
    See Portraits of New Yorkers Who Served in the Civil War150 years after they returned home.
    By Christopher Bonanos and Matt Giles
  29. the national interest
    Some Southern Members of Congress Apparently Haven’t Gotten Over the Civil WarYou rebel scum.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. foreign affairs
    Flint, Michigan Woman Reportedly Killed While Fighting Alongside Syrian Rebels“I didn’t think she was (a terrorist), but God only knows,” said her aunt.
    By Adam Martin
  31. U.S. to Give Syrian Citizens $100 Million in AidSidestepping the “thin red line.”
    By John Surico
  32. politics
    Grover Norquist Opposes Insane Texas Judge’s Tax Plan“Tax increases lead to civil unrest.”
    By Dan Amira
  33. things that happened awhile ago
    Florida Claims First Shots of the Civil WarDrunk Floridians may have been fired on by federal soldiers.
    By Dan Amira
  34. song of the south
    Haley Barbour Admits That Abolishing Slavery Was a Good ThingBREAKING x 1000.
    By Dan Amira
  35. cable news
    Talk Box: Glenn Beck Warns GOP ‘Boys Club’ of Whig-Like ExtinctionPlus, Chris Matthews tries to get Alabama governor Haley Barbour to let him know when the next boys’ club meeting starts.
    By Dorsey Shaw