The Conversation Texas distorts its past – and Sam Houston’s legacy – to defend Confederate monuments Huntsville reveres hometown hero Sam Houston. And he did not revere the Confederacy. Jimmy Henderson/flickr, CC BY-SAAt least 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces across the United States in 2020, according to […]

Donald J. Trump will exit the White House as a private citizen next month perched atop a pile of campaign cash unheard-of for an outgoing president, and with few legal limits on how he can spend it. Deflated by a loss he has yet to acknowledge, Trump has cushioned the […]