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RENÉE GRAHAM
An overdue reckoning for Black Freedmen on native lands
A new book from a descendant of African Americans enslaved by Indians examines both family and American history.
IDEAS | Alice L. Baumgartner
Mexico’s surprising role in sparking the US Civil War
Our southern neighbor was chaotic and weak, but its abolition of slavery gave it a powerful moral authority.
Renée Graham
Rush Limbaugh wasn’t funny or entertaining. He was racist.
When ESPN hired the radio talk show host, it legitimized his bigotry and offered a blueprint that his greatest acolyte followed into the White House.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER
Trump was right: Get out of Afghanistan
President Biden should honor what looks like the best deal we’re ever going to get in that country.
JEFF JACOBY
The racial decency — and irony — of Rutherford Hayes
He was a steadfast champion of Black voting rights, yet he presided over the end of Reconstruction.
IDEAS | KELLY HORAN
Shot to the heart: A love letter can light a fire in a pandemic winter
A historian of love and its discontents on the lost art of the well-crafted billet-doux.
Renée Graham
When Whitney Houston soared, and lifted an anxious nation at war
With a national anthem for the ages 30 years ago, a Black woman gave America what it didn’t even realize it needed.
ALAN WIRZBICKI
After 95 years, writers finally get the green light to lift from ‘The Great Gatsby’
Laws that prevent artists from borrowing from classic works, even decades after the original author’s death, chill the broader culture.
JEFF JACOBY
The politics of an Auschwitz survivor’s son
I am a libertarian-leaning conservative because the horrors of the Holocaust were engineered by government.
IDEAS | ANDREW ROBICHAUD
Coasting into winter 2021
Now's the time to reconsider our relationship with winter, long a "communal release valve" for Bostonians.