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Displaying all articles tagged:
Civil War
sxsw 2024
Mar. 15, 2024
What Is the Civil War in Alex Garland’s
Civil War
?
If you don’t want spoilers, but you do want answers, let us explain this movie.
By
Matthew Jacobs
da big screen
Mar. 13, 2024
A24 Rereleasing Ex Machina, Hereditary, Uncut Gems on Imax
The most stressful moments depicted in film, on the biggest screen possible.
By
Bethy Squires
trailer mix
Dec. 28, 2023
America Is Careening Toward
Civil War
The big battle will not be over 3 hours long.
By
Zoe Guy
a twenty-four
Dec. 19, 2023
A24 Is Entering Its HBO Era
Three projects last week heralded the coming of A24’s “more commercial” phase.
By
Nate Jones
historic disappointments
Dec. 23, 2021
Robert E. Lee Statue-Makers Troll Us Via Time Capsule
What we were promised: an ultra-rare picture of Lincoln in his coffin. What we got: a soggy photo of some guy who was never even president.
By
Margaret Hartmann
juneteenth
June 18, 2021
America’s Hollow Embrace of Juneteenth
How a commemoration of Black liberation became a favorite holiday of corporations and lawmakers.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice
capitol riot
Jan. 11, 2021
Could the 14th Amendment Ban Trump From Holding Office Again?
Even if a Trump political comeback isn’t blocked by impeachment, his incitement to insurrection may make him subject to a ban meant for Confederates.
By
Ed Kilgore
trailer mix
Oct. 22, 2020
Tom Hanks, Civil War Daddy, Is the Captain Again in
News of the World
Trailer
Still shooting for a Christmas theatrical release.
By
Devon Ivie
racism
July 22, 2020
No, Uncle Joe, Trump Is Hardly Our First Racist President
Trump may rival the most racist of presidents given the context of their times, but he hardly invented presidential racism.
By
Ed Kilgore
portland
July 21, 2020
Cotton Compares Portland’s Graffiti Artists to the Confederacy
Even more than Trump, Tom Cotton has never seen an incident of civil unrest that he wouldn’t like to escalate into civil war.
By
Ed Kilgore
what’s past is prologue
June 19, 2020
What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday?
The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
By
Ed Kilgore
george floyd protests
June 9, 2020
The Army Is Finally Taking the Names of Traitors Off of Its Bases
America may finally be repudiating the idea that the Confederacy — and the Neo-Confederacy — were honorable parts of the national legacy.
By
Ed Kilgore
drunk history
May 18, 2020
The Pandemic Has Led to an Outbreak of Terrible Historical Analogies
Trump and his allies are using the coronavirus to warp history. We can’t ignore their delusions.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice
impeachment
Jan. 19, 2020
Pence Is Right: Trump Is a Lot Like Andrew Johnson
Pence embraces the discredited Jim Crow theory of Johnson’s victimization and Reconstruction’s evil. But Trump does emulate his scofflaw behavior.
By
Ed Kilgore
politics
Oct. 24, 2019
How Close Is the U.S. to Civil War? About Two-Thirds of the Way, Americans Say
The country is divided and people think it’s headed to a bad place.
By
Adam K. Raymond
impeachment
Oct. 3, 2019
What We Can Learn From the First Presidential Impeachment
Like Trump, Andrew Johnson defied Congress and the Constitution in multiple ways that were hard to capture in articles of impeachment.
By
Ed Kilgore
racism
Aug. 21, 2019
Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still Does
Instead of complaining about greater recognition of racism in American history, conservatives should realize it has been their enemy, too.
By
Ed Kilgore
neo-confederacy
Dec. 7, 2018
VA Secretary Once Gave Speeches Lionizing Racist Arch-Traitor Jefferson Davis
Having an apparent member of the neo-Confederacy heading the agency that tends to those who served the country Davis tried to destroy is not good.
By
Ed Kilgore
2018 midterms
Nov. 20, 2018
Dixieland’s Favorite Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Sported Confederate Garb in 2014
The GOP senator who keeps saying racially offensive things saw nothing wrong with donning Confederate garb at Jefferson Davis’s home.
By
Ed Kilgore
space of the week
Nov. 15, 2018
A 19th-Century Firehouse Converted Into a Sleek, Modern Home
The history of this three-story renovation in Boerum Hill starts with the Civil War and ends with a rooftop archery range and Japanese soaking tub.
By
Wendy Goodman
documented
July 24, 2018
The Photographer Who Documents the Former Sites of Confederate Monuments
Artist Matthew Shain set out to capture the pedestals where they once stood.
By
Christopher Bonanos
the national interest
Oct. 31, 2017
Sanders Claims Kelly Learned Civil War Nonsense From Ken Burns. She’s Right.
We would like to believe that nice Ken Burns could not depict the same ideas as nasty John Kelly.
By
Jonathan Chait
Oct. 6, 2017
Trump Tweets His Way Into the Virginia Governor’s Race
The same day a new poll shows the Democratic candidate taking a big lead.
By
Ed Kilgore
Aug. 24, 2017
No, Impeaching Trump Would Not Reverse the 2016 Elections
If Trump were to be removed from office via impeachment, the GOP would continue to rule with much the same policies. So why all the talk of a “coup?”
By
Ed Kilgore
July 14, 2017
Here’s the Sweet Video of a Somali Mom Crying at Daughter’s Graduation
The heartwarming video has gone viral.
By
Lisa Ryan
June 7, 2017
Robert E. Lee Monuments Are Symbols of Neo-Confederacy, Not the Confederacy
Monuments that went up to celebrate the white supremacist triumph in successfully setting up Jim Crow should come down now.
By
Ed Kilgore
May 3, 2017
How Much Do Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson Actually Have in Common?
▶️ “Had Andrew Jackson been around a little bit later, you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart.”
By
Granger Willson
May 1, 2017
Trump’s Absurd Civil War Comment and the Limits of Deal-Making
His belief that wheeling and dealing could have solved the conflict over slavery shows a dangerous lack of principle.
By
Ed Kilgore
July 8, 2016
Reaction From Right to Dallas Massacre: Trump Is Measured; Others Not So Much
“Civil war” hysteria breaks out in some conservative quarters after massacre of police in Dallas, but so far Donald Trump’s being remarkably restrained.
By
Ed Kilgore
grand exits
June 25, 2016
Columnist George Will Has Left the Republican Party Because of Trump
“This is not my party.”
By
Chas Danner
roll clip!
June 22, 2016
See the Opening of McConaughey’s Civil War Film
He’s from the South, but he’s a
good guy
.
By
Jackson McHenry
June 11, 2016
Top GOP Donors Bemoan Trump at Elite Summit
They helped raise more than $1 billion for Romney in 2012. Now they are considering putting “country first, party second.”
By
Chas Danner
May 18, 2016
TNT Picks Up Young Shakespeare Series
The network has also ordered a pilot about a modern day civil war.
By
Jackson McHenry
civil war
May 14, 2016
Anti-Trump Republicans Are Still Plotting an Independent Presidential Run
#NeverTrump4Ever?
By
Chas Danner
May 9, 2016
Tech Tips for the Avengers, Who Have Never Seen a Computer
Just Dropbox it, you guys.
By
Brian Feldman
republican party
May 8, 2016
As Trump Pans Republican Party Unity, Palin Targets Paul Ryan
Just another 24 hours in the national implosion that is the Trump-era GOP.
By
Chas Danner
Apr. 27, 2016
See Chris Hemsworth, Ostensible Mortal, Exercise
Is he Team Cap or Team Iron Man? As if you even care.
By
Karen Brill
political ideologies
Apr. 26, 2016
Chris Evans Is Team Iron Man in Real Life
Chris Evans, you beautiful traitor.
By
Jackson McHenry
gallery
June 5, 2015
See Portraits of New Yorkers Who Served in the Civil War
150 years after they returned home.
By
Christopher Bonanos
and
Matt Giles
Apr. 27, 2015
6 Things to Know About Marvel’s Newest Movie Villain, Baron Zemo
There’s been more than one of him, because comics.
By
Abraham Riesman
leaks
Oct. 30, 2014
This Leaked
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Scene Foreshadows
Civil War
Also, our first look at Thanos wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.
By
Jesse David Fox
sequels
Oct. 14, 2014
Report: Robert Downey Jr. to Join
Captain America 3
Kicking off the Civil War story line.
By
Anna Silman
the national interest
Aug. 28, 2014
Some Southern Members of Congress Apparently Haven’t Gotten Over the Civil War
You rebel scum.
By
Jonathan Chait
foreign affairs
May 30, 2013
Flint, Michigan Woman Reportedly Killed While Fighting Alongside Syrian Rebels
“I didn’t think she was (a terrorist), but God only knows,” said her aunt.
By
Adam Martin
May 8, 2013
U.S. to Give Syrian Citizens $100 Million in Aid
Sidestepping the “thin red line.”
By
John Surico
politics
Aug. 23, 2012
Grover Norquist Opposes Insane Texas Judge’s Tax Plan
“Tax increases lead to civil unrest.”
By
Dan Amira
Jan. 10, 2012
Humor in the Civil War Worked Exactly Like It Does Today
Which is your favorite joke in this article about humor during the Civil War? Mine is the title “An ‘Off-Hand’ Joke” for an amputation-humor […]
By
Hallie Cantor
Book Shelf
Nov. 16, 2011
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Reprints Civil War-Era Cookbook
The book features more than 200 recipes from the Civil War era.
By
Collin Keefe
things that happened awhile ago
Apr. 13, 2011
Florida Claims First Shots of the Civil War
Drunk Floridians may have been fired on by federal soldiers.
By
Dan Amira
song of the south
Mar. 28, 2011
Haley Barbour Admits That Abolishing Slavery Was a Good Thing
BREAKING x 1000.
By
Dan Amira
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