Take the Weekly Poll: After the Confederate flag, what else should go?
The Charleston shooting that left nine African Americans dead in the Emanuel AME Church has set off a nationwide conversation about flying the Confederate Stars and Bars over public buildings. There...
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Two news stories in the past week remind us that California of the 1860s was a different place from what it is today. War with the Confederate states roiled the political debate then, dividing...
View ArticleTake the Weekly Poll: On Guns and Flags
With stunning rapidity, the state that launched the Civil War and had clung to the symbol of slavery for more than 150 years, took down the Confederate flag Friday after a young white man killed nine...
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