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Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A short history of the filibuster

Matthew Rozsa
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Joe Biden risks a reckoning

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich (AP/Dennis Cook/Reuters/Mike Theiler/Salon)

How the right fought MLK day

David L. Chappell
South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond reacts to applause from Dixiecrat's State's Rights Convention delegates in Birmingham, Ala., July 17, 1948. At left is Walter Sillers, convention chairman. (AP)

White supremacy's long shadow

Jacqueline Jones