This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs many as 2,000 demonstrators descended on Washington on Tuesday, the largest and most boisterous crowd to gather in the nation’s capital during five straight days of protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.Banging on fences erected near the White House and marching through the city to the U.S. Capitol, the largely peaceful protesters included high schoolers and stay-at-home moms, young parents and toddlers, elderly couples and large families. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke with...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs many as 2,000 demonstrators descended on Washington on Tuesday, the largest and most boisterous crowd to gather in the nation’s capital during five straight days of protests over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.Banging on fences erected near the White House and marching through the city to the U.S. Capitol, the largely peaceful protesters included high schoolers and stay-at-home moms, young parents and toddlers, elderly couples and large families. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) spoke with...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs a pro-Trump mob last week, Eric Foner, one of the nation’s premier Civil War historians, watched in horror.“I was watching just like anyone else, with my mouth hanging open,” he said in an interview.But his mind quickly shifted to history, specifically the little-known history of a little-known provision of the of the U.S. Constitution.The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, is most famously known for providing citizenship and equal protection under the law to anyone born or naturalized in the United States, including...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareAs a pro-Trump mob last week, Eric Foner, one of the nation’s premier Civil War historians, watched in horror.“I was watching just like anyone else, with my mouth hanging open,” he said in an interview.But his mind quickly shifted to history, specifically the little-known history of a little-known provision of the of the U.S. Constitution.The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, is most famously known for providing citizenship and equal protection under the law to anyone born or naturalized in the United States, including...WW…