When you get right down to it, there are really only two kinds of New Orleans-set movies. There are those that truly get the city, that carry the New Orleans…
Hundreds of thousands of African-American men enlisted and fought for a nation that saw them as second-class citizens. They deserve our thanks. While serving as a sentry with French forces in…
I had loaned my body to America. That’s what the Navy doctor said, as he poked and prodded me in his office during my separation physical. After eight years in…
Acclaimed historian Prof. Deborah Lipstadt is leading a fight to lose the hyphen from anti-Semitism, saying its presence ‘completely distorts the meaning of the word’ William Shakespeare famously asked “What’s…
THIS ARTICLE IS A COLLABORATION, WITH REPORTING BYRobert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Matt Richtel, Mitch Smith and Karen Yourish of The New York Times; Scott Dance of The Baltimore Sun; Jackie…
Stereotypes about black men as hypersexual and uniquely violent means that, when they are abused, they regularly face scorn and disbelief. An important lesson of the #MeToo movement has been…
The next federal stimulus package has to reduce inequality, not make it worse. The federal coronavirus relief packages were less effective than they could have been because they ignored the…
I was an American history major in college, back in the 1980s. I’ll be honest with you. I thrilled to the way the American story was told back then. To…
Proving its word worthless, Beijing is moving to crush Hong Kong’s liberties 27 years ahead of schedule, in blatant violation of the deal that saw Britain hand rule of the…
The collapse of two Michigan dams on Tuesday following heavy rainfall has triggered concerns over how precarious dam infrastructure in the U.S. is inadequate to handle severe weather. Aging dams will increasingly…