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Topic: Civil War

Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Troops in the streets: A short history

Andrew O'Hehir
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room at the White House on February 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump: Civil War mishandled by Lincoln

Cheyenne McNeill
Taylor John Smith, Charles Melton and Alex Brockdorff in "Warfare" (Murray Close/A24)

An apolitical war film is impossible

Coleman Spilde
A collage of various Confederate and Soviet "memorabilia," including a bust of Vladimir Lenin, a statue of Robert E. Lee, and various postage stamps. (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Dzmitry Halko
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Women walk through a war-torn neighborhood in Omdurman on November 2, 2024. (AMAURY FALT-BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Sudan civil war: Fueled by meth

Niko Vorobyov
A detachment of German soldiers on their way to install parking signs in preparation for the 8th Congress of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg, 3rd September 1936. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Aggrieved white men: Threat to democracy

Bernd Reiter
Jefferson Davis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court’s Civil War callback

Jeffrey Abramson, Dennis Aftergut
Bill Maher visits The Megyn Kelly Show at the SiriusXM Studios on May 20, 2024 in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Maher: Civil war "could happen here"

Gabriella Ferrigine
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"Civil War" movie poster (A24)

History of a defaced Statue of Liberty

Lisa Laman
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former President Donald J. Trump attend a security briefing with state officials and law enforcement at the Weslaco Department of Public Safety DPS Headquarters before touring the US-Mexico border wall on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 in Weslaco, TX. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP revives Civil War legal theories

Conor Lynch
Nikki Haley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nikki Haley, MAGA and the Confederacy

Rich Logis
Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

2024 is a battle over white supremacy

Amanda Marcotte
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Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the crowd during a campaign stop at the Nevada Fairgrounds community building on December 18, 2023 in Nevada, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Haley deserves no grace for war gaffe

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Violent rhetoric is a road to civil war

Heather Digby Parton
Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge (Getty Images/John Parrot/Stocktrek Images)

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Mike Lofgren
Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane, known as "Trump Force One," after speaking at a campaign event, at the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport on Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Manchester, NH. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Has Trump unleashed a new civil war?

Brian Karem
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Charles I on his way to be executed, 30 January 1649 (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Civilizations collapse: Are we next?

Paul Rosenberg
Armed supporters of President Trump chant during a protest on January 6, 2021 in Salem, Oregon. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

MAGA violence goes underground

Chauncey DeVega
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MTG's long audition to be Trump's veep

Austin Sarat, Dennis Aftergut
12th President Zachary Taylor (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

The presidential murder mystery of 1850

Matthew Rozsa
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US Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yells as US President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, February 7, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Mocking MTG won't save us from civil war

Chauncey DeVega
Vintage Civil War print of the Battle of Fort Sanders (Getty Images/Stock Montage)

The South won the psychological war

Matthew Rozsa
Anti-government protesters take part in a demonstration against the political elites and the government, in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 8, 2020 after the massive explosion at the Port of Beirut. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

America's future if the Trumpers win

Brian Karem
A man carries a handgun emblazoned with the Confederate battle flag during an unveiling of a monument to unknown Confederate dead at Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, which is owned privately, in Brantley, Ala., Aug. 27, 2017. (Kevin D. Liles/For the Washington Post/Getty Images)

Gun prevalence rooted in old divisions

Matthew Rozsa
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