In October of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens (at the time, white, male citizens) were to cease taking seriously their franchise: One of the animating causes of this magazine at its founding, in 1857, was […]
Tupac Shakur is often brought up among the best rappers of all time, but so many people connected with him because of his contributions to the conversations happening outside of music. Pac never shied away from talking about politics and social issues, and he always did so with a level of passion and intelligence that […]
DALLAS — A man suspected in a pair of Dallas-area killings was in the country illegally and had been deported three times to Mexico, U.S. immigration officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Dallas County jail officials discovered the suspect initially identified as Silvestre Franco-Luviano was using an alias. The 40-year-old suspect’s true identity is Juan Navarro Rios, […]
Donald J. Trump has a story he liked to tell early in his campaign to win Florida. The first time he told it, he had 144 days to go before the Florida primary. He was in front of hundreds of people at a rally at Trump National Doral, which was fitting because the story is […]
Donald Trump kicked off a speech to a major veterans Thursday by firing back against those like San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick who protest the American flag. “We will stop apologizing for America, and we will start celebrating America,” he told the American Legion’s national gathering in Cincinnati Thursday morning. “We will be united […]