Jamelle Bouie

How the Enlightenment created modern race thinking, and why we should confront it.

The new lynching memorial confronts the racial terrorism that corrupted America—and still does.

The new Slate Academy finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.

Donald Trump writes the latest chapter in a long history.

New findings explain how Trump won them over—and why he probably wouldn’t next time.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

But the Vermont senator’s political revolution depends on white America, too.

We are a nation of immigrants and refugees. Yet we always fear who is coming next.

The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than factory workvers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and so on.

315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.

The emancipation of black Americans has been written out of our celebration of the Civil War's end.

The two men met at Appomattox. The loser would become a role model, the victor an embarrassment.