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Slavery

  1. u.s. history
    Was American Slavery Uniquely Evil?We don’t need to minimize the barbarity of premodern forms of slavery to advance racial justice in America.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. juneteenth
    America’s Hollow Embrace of JuneteenthHow a commemoration of Black liberation became a favorite holiday of corporations and lawmakers.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  3. gridlock
    Today’s Gridlock Is Like a 19th-Century NightmareWe’re experiencing the instability and close partisan competition of the Gilded Age along with the big differences and fury of the 1850s.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. racism
    No, Uncle Joe, Trump Is Hardly Our First Racist PresidentTrump may rival the most racist of presidents given the context of their times, but he hardly invented presidential racism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. what’s past is prologue
    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
  6. what’s past is prologue
    Trump Is Reviving the Disgraceful Legacy of ‘Law-and-Order’ PoliticsTrump’s rhetoric echos Nixon and Reagan — but unlike his predecessors, he’s incapable of posing as a force for unity as well as repression.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. medicare for all
    Elizabeth Warren Sees Health Care As a Civil-Rights Struggle. That Bothers Some.Some have taken issue with her comparison of today’s fight for universal health care to past civil-rights struggles.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. civility
    What Should Progressives Be Willing to Sacrifice on the Altar of Civility?The “reasonable right” often asks too much for peace.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. racism
    Racism Has Thwarted American Ideals From the Beginning, and Still DoesInstead of complaining about greater recognition of racism in American history, conservatives should realize it has been their enemy, too.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. reparations
    McConnell Continues Glib Remarks on Reparations, Equates Himself With Obama’I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners.’
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  11. confederacy
    Celebrate Racism! It’s Jefferson Davis’s Birthday in AlabamaAnd yet you wonder why this state enacted an aggressively reactionary abortion law?
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. 2020 presidential election
    What Should Democrats Do When Trump Attacks Them Over Reparations?While Democrats should dispute lies about what they mean by reparations, they should not retreat from the moral reckoning the country needs.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. centrism
    No, Hate Speech and Political Correctness Are Not EquivalentDavid Brooks and Charles Lane want compromise above all. Sometimes that involves a compromise with evil.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. criminal justice reform
    America’s Prisoners Are on Strike. We Can’t Afford to Deny Their Demands.Our nation’s mass incarceration habit is morally and financially bankrupting us. This week, America’s inmates are staging an intervention.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. It’s Juneteenth: Time to Renew a Commitment to True EqualityAt a time when many white Americans are in denial about the reality of race relations, Juneteenth offers a chance to remember and understand.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. history
    Africatown and the 21st-Century Stain of SlaveryThe descendants of Cudjo Lewis, the final survivor of the last slave ship to land in America, fight for respect and environmental justice.
    By Nick Tabor
  17. Trump’s Absurd Civil War Comment and the Limits of Deal-MakingHis belief that wheeling and dealing could have solved the conflict over slavery shows a dangerous lack of principle.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. yale university
    Yale’s Calhoun College to Keep Racially Charged NameBut the school’s residence-hall leaders will no longer be called “master.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  19. Queens Woman Arrested for Keeping Korean Teens As SlavesThey were forced to do marathon housework and perform hours-long massages.
    By Samuel Lieberman
  20. the national interest
    Why Rush Limbaugh Can’t Stop Talking About SlaveryHe’s like Ta-Nehisi Coates, except right wing instead of left wing, and really dumb instead of really smart.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. the national interest
    The Economist Denounces One-Sided Account of Slavery [Updated]What about slave-on-slave crime?
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. cable news news
    MSNBC Host Sorry for Saying Disgusting Thing About Sarah Palin’s MouthMartin Bashir, not Alec Baldwin!
    By Joe Coscarelli
  23. ‘Live Free or Die’ State Tells Dead to Live FreeIt “posthumously emancipated” a group of fourteen slaves.
    By Dan Amira
  24. other states’ embarrassments
    Mississippi Just Outlawed Slavery, Because MississippiYou are not helping your image, Mississippi.
    By Dan Amira
  25. other states’ embarrassments
    Second Arkansas Lawmaker Defends Slavery“If slavery were so God-awful, why …” 
    By Dan Amira
  26. foot in mouth
    Slavery Mention Deleted From Marriage VowImplied children born into slavery were better off than African-American kids today.
    By Andre Tartar
  27. song of the south
    Haley Barbour Admits That Abolishing Slavery Was a Good ThingBREAKING x 1000.
    By Dan Amira
  28. the post-racial world
    Haley Barbour Defends Virginia’s Confederate History Month ProclamationIt “doesn’t amount to diddly,” Barbour said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  29. the post-racial world
    Virginia Governor Admits That Slavery and Civil War Are RelatedThe proclamation declaring April “Confederate History Month” will now contain a passage acknowledging slavery.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  30. the post-racial world
    Virginia Governor Pretends Civil War Had Nothing to Do With SlaveryHe issues a Confederate History Month proclamation that never once mentions slavery.
    By Dan Amira
  31. the first and most important family
    Michelle Obama Has an Interesting Racial History, TooIncluding a white great-great-great grandfather.
    By Dan Amira
  32. the morning line
    Anything God Can Do, Rudy Can Do Better • Giuliani yesterday unveiled the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, a “Contract with America”–style plan called — we kid you not — “The Twelve Commitments.” Most of it is boilerplate, calling for low taxes, energy independence, security. Best part: America’s Mayor unleashed it during a “speech attended by about 150 people.” Fred Thompson leads in the polls. [NYP]