Having a new Black SCOTUS justice or bringing Barack Obama out of retirement for a photo opportunity won't raise Joe Biden's poll numbers or stave off defeat in the mid-term elections…

A declassified CIA document outlining their strategies for covert action in Angola in the 1970s offers lessons for the present.

Biden's popularity continues to decline. And unlike Will Smith, the "Build Back Better" President has shown little indication that he can generate the enthusiasm needed to reverse course.

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This week’s featured scholar is Kathryn Benjamin Golden. Golden is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at University of Delaware.  Her article is “‘Armed in the Great Swamp’: Fear, Maroon…