Some of our billionaires feel comfortable only in states of the neo-Confederacy.
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Whitening American History
Trump’s efforts to remove Black people from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.
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On Political Violence
Today on TAP: Over the same issues that Lincoln cited at Gettysburg
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How Bad Slavery Was
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution.
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Trump’s Orwellian Assault on Black History
How do you clean up the Black experience in America to gloss over the history of slavery and Jim Crow?
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Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist
Today on TAP: The ‘race-centered’ Smithsonian exhibits are bad, but there’s nothing race-centered in restoring Confederate statuary.
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The Only ‘American President’ Trump Resembles Is Jefferson Davis
Like the Confederacy’s leader, Trump’s agenda is civil war.
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Palestine, Writing, and Everything Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters
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Why Nikki Stammered
Today on TAP: Is it possible to say anything historically accurate without offending the Republican base?