Civil War

Remembering the roots of a real Civil War Remembering the roots of a real Civil War

While right-wingers posture about secession and armed resistance, let's recall how our actual Civil War began
By Steven Lubet Oct 16, 2009

  • How would Lincoln vote today?

    Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
    By Michael Lind February 12, 2009

  • The economic Civil War

    The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
    By Michael Lind December 18, 2008

  • Running for their lives

    Kenya's long-distance runners are moving targets in a recent outburst of ethnic violence -- two have been murdered and many more fear death.
    By Thilo Thielke February 14, 2008

  • Miss Landmine 2008

    At a beauty pageant held for Angola's land mine victims, the prize is a prosthetic leg.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory November 19, 2007

  • Bush's new friends: The Sunnis

    As plans to stabilize Iraqi politics go nowhere fast, experts warn that the latest U.S. tactics could lead to greater civil war.
    By Mark Benjamin September 5, 2007

  • Surging toward disaster in Iraq

    As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail.
    By Juan Cole June 28, 2007

  • More fun with tariff history

    A reader writes: Southern Democrats used to be pro-trade, and Northern Republicans were pro-tariff
    By Andrew Leonard December 1, 2006

  • "Civil war," "new phase" or just stayin' the course?

    The Times says its reporters can call that thing in Iraq a "civil war." The White House doesn't know what to say.
    By Tim Grieve November 28, 2006

  • You, sir, are no Abe Lincoln

    Bush may wish he measured up to the Great Emancipator. But he does stack up quite nicely against Andrew Johnson.
    By Garrett Epps August 23, 2006

  • Another British memo belies Bush on Iraq

    A confidential memo from the outgoing British ambassador in Iraq warns that the war-torn country is likely headed for civil war.
    By Mark Follman August 3, 2006

  • The hatred incubator

    The Baghdad morgue, where Iraqis come every day to collect the bodies of slain relatives and comrades, is the alpha and omega of Iraq's civil war.
    By Phillip Robertson July 13, 2006

  • Gaza melts down

    With Hamas and Fatah forces shooting at each other, Gaza stands on the edge of civil war. A report from the streets.
    By Mitchell Prothero May 24, 2006

  • Saving Iraq: Mission impossible

    Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite hard-liner distrusted by his foes, will almost certainly be unable to stop Iraq's slide to chaos.
    By Juan Cole May 11, 2006

  • Civil war? What civil war?

    Desperate to convince voters we're winning, Bush is denying that Iraq is having a civil war. But the facts contradict him.
    By Juan Cole March 23, 2006

  • "The Amalgamation Polka"

    In this sweeping Civil War novel, Stephen Wright's understanding of America trumps DeLillo's or Pynchon's, and his writing rivals Toni Morrison's.
    By Andrew O'Hehir March 22, 2006

  • Iraq's worst week -- and Bush's

    As Americans finally begin to grasp the magnitude of the Iraq catastrophe, Bush's popularity hits a new low.
    By Juan Cole March 1, 2006

  • America's unlikely savior

    Recently, the U.S. was calling for Muqtada al-Sadr's head. Now, the fiery cleric may be the only man who can defuse Iraq's Sunni-Shiite conflict.
    By Nir Rosen February 3, 2006

  • Freedom and equality: Un-American activities

    A master historian argues that Reconstruction ideals, far from reflecting America's deepest values, contradicted them
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 16, 2006

  • The only way out

    All the plans the Democrats have offered on Iraq rely on wishful thinking. Here's one that might actually work.
    By Joe Conason December 3, 2005

  • "The March" by E.L. Doctorow

    In this kaleidoscopic rendering of Gen. Sherman's famous March to the Sea, the characters and metaphors come and go with all the tumult of the Union Army.
    By Laura Miller October 1, 2005

  • The "Cedar Revolution" meets Hezbollah

    The powerful Shiite militia flexes its muscles, warning the Lebanese opposition not to do the bidding of Israel or the United States.
    By Mitchell Prothero March 5, 2005

  • Long live secession!

    It will never work, but that doesn't stop blue-state radicals from insisting they have the right to break up Bush's -- and Lincoln's -- "imperial" union. A revolutionary guide to American history.
    By Christopher Ketcham January 25, 2005

  • Old times there are not forgotten

    John Wilkes Booth, the South's romantic villain, refused to accept the triumph of Northern values. Some things never change.
    By David Talbot November 19, 2004

  • Letters

    Haven't white Southerners suffered enough? Anyway, slavery is irrelevant to the plot (and geography) of "Cold Mountain." Readers respond to Stephanie Zacharek's review.
    January 5, 2004
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