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The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

Adam Serwer The Atlantic
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Time to Pay Attention to Climate Change

Levi Rickert Native News Online
For Native Americans, global warming and climate change have been on their agenda for decades. Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation has been telling audiences that it is time to pay attention to the warning signs from Mother Earth.

We Are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes

Jon Michaels and David Noll The New York Times
The new private enforcement laws endorse what amounts to a civilized form of vigilantism. Recent years have seen an alarming number of vigilante threats or acts against immigrants seeking asylum, Black Lives Matters protesters and voting rights driv