David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Texas distorts its past – and Sam Houston’s legacy – to defend Confederate monuments
At least 160 Confederate symbols were removed from public spaces across the United States in 2020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Even Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, has removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee…
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality. Thomas Craemer,…
House restarts conversation about reparations for Black Americans
The discussion of payments from the federal government comes as the administration focuses on racial equity. House lawmakers on Wednesday debated proposed legislation to create a commission to study whether and how Black Americans should receive reparations from the federal…
Last Slave Ship to America Found, Truth About the Clotilda
The last slave ship to America was the Clotilda, a schooner, and when I heard it was found, I remembered my friend Sylviane Diouf. Years ago, walking home from the subway, a historical scholar, she told me she’d just published…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor