The Roberts Court and the Dred Scott Tradition

Van Gosse History News Network
The Dred Scott decision had little grounding in American legal doctrine and the English common law upon which American jurists relied. Neither does the Trump challenge to birthright citizenship.

The Seeds of Today’s Fascist Threat Lie in Our Own Past

Whitney Curry Wimbish The American Prospect
The seeds of an authoritarian state will still be there unless the United States reckons with its own fascist past and how that relates to Stephen Miller’s vision for the future.

On Organized Labor’s AntiBlack Mythology

Julian Rose Scalawag
Photo of a man behind bars with his face crossed out with magic marker.
An interrogation of organized labor’s lily white and non-southern based ideal of who and what constitutes “American Labor’s” past and present