The treasured myth of the “Lost Cause” of freedom-loving patriots fighting bravely for self-determination and “states’ rights” can’t survive even a cursory reading of secessionist documents.
As if he had not already dumped enough fuel on a raging inferno, President Donald Trump has now taken up common cause with the Lost Cause: the historically inaccurate, myth-driven campaign to sanctify the Confederacy. ...
On this Fourth of July, Americans live restlessly under a presidential administration hostile to the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Most Americans despise the president — a blustering, feckless lout ...
Listening to Trump assume the leadership of the Republican Party, a degrading event compared to death by many Republicans, inevitably brought thoughts of that party’s founding president.
Whatever their serious and searing disagreements, both David Duke and Louis Farrakhan are attracted to Trump's presidential candidacy.
Larry Wimore: "That's right, you're the one who opened your big mouth and got in the bed with the Devil — now he just wants you to keep that mouth open."
Romney will cite Trump's refusal to release his tax returns and his initial reluctance to disavow an endorsement from a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Both Ryan and McConnell said they did not want to weigh in further on the presidential race, something they have declined to do for months.
Ryan, as a Republican leader, has still pledged himself to support the GOP nominee — even if it's Trump. So will that change any time soon?
In an era of epidemic police misbehavior, some earnestly wonder why African Americans often don't trust law enforcement. Here is an instructive reminder.
At least five people were arrested on Saturday as white-supremacist and African-American groups clashed outside the South Carolina State House, where the Confederate battle flag was removed last week after a half-century, authorities said.