Outside the Beltway

If only we knew why Mississippi chose to join the Confederacy…

The GOP caught the car and now doesn’t know what to do.

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

Explaining the inexplicable.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

Group dynamics and limited choices.

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

On racism, Republicans, and names

A poor answer to a softball question has created unnecessary controversy.

Why can’t some of us handle the truth?

These have been hanging around for a while.

Much ado about nothing?

Some of these have been open for a while…

Sanity has prevailed.

A tale from the DeSantis’ Woke Wars.

An appropriate step.

Back when people were kinder and man’s word was his bond.

Doubling down on state standards on slavery.

On Florida’s updated standards regarding slavery.

A quick follow-up to a previous post.

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

Slavery is an inextricable part of our past, whether we want to talk about it or not.

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

It’s becoming just another day off work!

Getting rid of Confederate tributes is long overdue. It ain’t cheap.

Diving into the structure of Alabama’s districts and highlighting deep problems.

Teachers are frustrated over interference from outside.

Whither American civil religion?

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

A deep dive into why our politics are so broken.

Do last year’s words belong to last year’s language?

Possibly the last child of an American enslaved person has died.

It goes deeper than base names.

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

Who should have the final say on the law of the land?

The implications of modes of interpretation.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

The longstanding celebration that become a national holiday last year is being exploited for profit!

The laying out of the case begins.

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

The apparently eminent demise of abortion rights has reignited an old debate.

A Black columnist argues that Will Smith set back a whole race.

If this is the best they have, they don’t have a lot

A man most have never heard of is being reassessed more than a half-century after his death.

A too-small step in the right direction.

It’s always a good idea to reread a text before referencing it, especially if you’re a history Ph.D. like Newt Gingrich