Tag: Awards, Decorations and Honors

Military Base Names and the Cult of the Confederacy

By renaming military bases, the Defense Department dismantles an enduring legacy of the Lost Cause.

Biden Learns to Live With the Risks of the Coronavirus

The president’s symptoms improved somewhat, a day after he tested positive for Covid-19.

After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the Club

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement or “a way to silence me”?