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WSJ Editorial Board: Private Emails Show College Board's Intellectual Dishonesty

While the College Board acknowleged a "breakdown" of the process by which edits were to be vetted by the scholars developing the curriculum, but denied being in conversation with Florida officials about the edits. 

FBI Releases Bill Russell's File, Which Includes Allegation of Betting Against Own Team

The Bureau's file on the late NBA star demonstrates their suspicion of the civil rights movement and disdain for politically engaged Black athletes. It also contains a memo alleging Russell placed a significant wager against the Celtics as player-coach, although many known facts and lack of follow-up make that allegation doubtful. 

Once an Alumnus Critical of Diversity at UVa, Now He Sits on the Board

Bert Ellis has been appointed to the University of Virginia's governing board by Governor Glenn Youngkin, having worked as the leader of a conservative alumni group demanding and end to diversity programs he sees as conflicting with the university's heritage. 

Hollywood Panel Discussion on March on Washington from August, 1936

After the passing of entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, watch a discussion on civil rights recorded immediately after the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su Shaped by Work on 1990s Sweatshop Trafficking Case

With a prominent record of advocating for immigrant workers, Su faces indifference or outright hostility from moderate Democrats and Republicans as her nomination to succeed Marty Walsh at the Department of Labor advances. 

Why is University of Minnesota Slow to Meet Obligations to Repatriate Native Artifacts?

Many institutions have been able to avoid repatriating artifacts because of the stringency of requirements that individual tribes document an affiliation with the objects in question, as well as a lack of transparency about holdings. 

A Painful Shared Bond: Their Ancestors were Enslaved by Robert E. Lee

Descendants of people enslaved by Robert E. Lee have met with his other descendants in an effort to expand dialogue about the public history presented at Arlington House, with the guidance of historian Susan Glisson. 

Israeli Human Rights and Civil Society Groups Warn UN that IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Shields Israel from Accountability

Signatories include Israel’s largest human rights group, B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups, who claim that provisions of the definition equates criticism of Israeli policy toward Palestinians with antisemitism.

Restored Thomas Jefferson Estate Shows Handiwork of Enslaved Artisan John Hemings

The third president's house at Poplar Forest was restored based in part on archival correspondence between Jefferson and James Hemings detailing the finish carpentry to be completed. 

Susan Rice's Departure Shows Continuity of Bipartisan Consensus of Punitive Treatment of Migrants

Despite her service in the Obama administration, many migrant advocates saw Rice's policies on detention and family separation as different from Stephen Miller's in tone more than in substance. 

Does Tucker's Path Lead to (Alex) Jonestown?

Like Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson's success hinged on smuggling far-right conspiratorial views into the mainstream through incredulity and absurdity to encourage viewers to accept an alternate, grievance-driven reality. 

Book Bans Surge as Officials Fear Ambiguities in Florida Law

“It is a whole new level of fear,” said Kathleen Daniels, the president of the Florida Association for Media in Education, a professional organization for school librarians and media educators. “There are books that are not being selected because they have been challenged.”

Liberal SCOTUS Judges are Calling Out the Court's Crisis of Legitimacy. Why Aren't Dem Politicians?

by Simon Lazarus

A Washington legal veteran argues that the judicial branch has always been political. The liberal ideal of a branch separate from partisan concerns is a historical oddity that the conservative legal movement has rejected in substance; legal liberals must do the same. 

Brown President: States, not Students, are Threatening Speech on Campus

by Christina Paxson

"It is ludicrous to claim that state-sponsored censorship — which carries the full force of the government and can even entail criminal penalties — is justified by student misconduct or peer pressure."

Texas Senate Approves Bill Requiring Ten Commandments Display in Schools

"Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement that both bills are wins for religious freedom in Texas."

The Documents Daniel Ellsberg Didn't Leak

While famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the researcher and activist has revealed that he had another stash of secret papers—about American nuclear war planning—that he felt a duty to publicize. He never did release them, but is committed in his last days to work against nuclear war. 

The 4-Day Work Week is an Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)

While workers have long expressed a preference for a shorter work week, the labor market issues of the COVID pandemic have recalibrated the balance of power between workers and management in ways that have made the idea more appealing to policymakers. 

The Dirty, Deadly History of Depleted Uranium Munitions

by Joshua Frank

If British shipments of depleted uranium munitions to Ukrainian forces are matched by Russian invaders, Ukraine will face an environmental and health catastrophe that will outlast the war. Regardless of who wins, Ukrainians will lose. 

The January 6 Committee's Report Shows it's up to Politics, not History, to Judge

by Matthew Sitman

The committee's report will never be able to create or sustain closure on the Trump era or the hard right turn of conservatism; only voters and political organizers can do that. 

Rutgers Unions Suspend Strike after Big Gains

Although unions representing graduate workers, lecturers, and full-time faculty must approve them, a framework for agreement has been reached that would deliver significant gains in wages and other demands.