Civil rights stalwarts, politicians and academics held a requiem for the Voting Rights Act on its 61st anniversary last week, lamenting the neutering of a law that had propelled African Americans – especially in the South – into choosing their own leaders without fear of violence, murder or lesser polling place obstacles. Activists didn’t call […]

Francesca Hong was supposed to win the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Wisconsin by 20 points – she lost by 0.4%. The Polymarket trading showed Hong’s likelihood of winning was at 92%. Meanwhile, Abdul El-Sayed was supposed to win the Michigan Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Senate by 15 points—and he won by 1%.

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months… The eyes of the world are upon you… The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you…”  -General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jeri Penrod and his family — his wife and their four children, Chloe, Andrew, Clara, and Ananias — faced financial ruin. But a few timely scholarships provided the family not only with a solid education but also with the financial stability they needed to persevere.

Since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated with history, pouring for hours over a collection of front pages of The Columbus Dispatch that my mom bought me at the state fair, or a reprint of a 1903 Sears catalogue she got… somewhere, or yellowing hardbound editions of American Heritage magazine. But the fascination also […]

A Virginia resident is asking a Prince William County district court to order the state’s superintendent of public instruction to demonstrate how the Virginia Department of Education defines the term “genocide” in the state’s K-12 history curriculum. Prince William resident Gene Sokolowski filed a FOIA lawsuit in his county district court, alleging that Superintendent of […]