The celebration will not feel much like the last big one in 1976. I still believe our nation’s best days are ahead. But our history — and our headlines — suggest we are facing a familiar test. Another ...

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The business of cocaine trafficking has changed over the years, with different players and routes. A look at how the trade ...

If history is a guide, America’s 250th birthday will feel more like 1926 than 1976. The same currents are visible: immigrants from historically Catholic nations cast as threats, racism on the rise, ...

Slavery is condoned in Islam. Muhammad himself bought, sold, and owned slaves. And Muhammad was the Perfect Man (al-insan ...

Dispatch Dec 11, 2025 This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. ST. LOUIS — A five-year effort to mark Missouri’s most notorious slave prison will come to fruition next month, ...

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It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

In a pointed interview, Prager dismantles Candace Owens’ disturbing claims—from alleged Jewish dominance in the slave trade ...

Candace Owens, a right-wing political commentator and author, has been espousing inflammatory positions on numerous topics ...

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.