Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has said Germany must rename all barracks honoring WWII-era soldiers. The Bundeswehr has been engulfed in a series of scandals - from reports of sexual abuse to right-wing extremism.

The president’s new “election integrity” group will find fraud where it doesn’t exist and make it harder for Americans to cast their ballots. By Jamelle Bouie.

It will be led by Mike Pence and Kris Kobach, who have a very long history of making it harder to vote.  By Ari Berman.

The Mountain State won’t protect LGBTQ people from bias-motivated violence. By Mark Joseph Stern.

Sorry, Christian wingnuts, but you got scammed. By Evan Hurst.

The signing would represent a major triumph for Vice President Mike Pence. By Timothy Alberta and Shane Goldmacher.

The alt-right was key in getting Trump into power. But its strain of misogyny differs in sometimes surprising ways to that of the traditional Christian right. By Matthew N Lyons.

She needs to reassure conservatives and discourage leftists from voting. By Nicholas Vinocur.

President Trump’s revisionist, Andrew Jackson-related history can be traced to none other than Steve Bannon. By Asawin Suebsaeng.

CNN has obtained forty-two minutes of audio against evolution by Dr. Mark Green, the Republican state senator in Tennessee who is President Donald Trump’s second nominee to serve as Secretary of the Army. By Bob Brigham.

We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril. By Corinne Purtill.

Hate groups have come to tiny Pikeville in a bid for support, but locals fear a violent standoff between the neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters. By Lois Beckett .

‘Colonialism as a form of violent foreign rule was legitimised by a racist ideology of European superiority,’ says the board that greets you at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin… By Daniel Trilling.

A federal lawsuit challenges a vestige of Jim Crow, and opens up new questions about the current state of the ballot. By Vann R. Newkirk II.

A Q&A with Bret Stephens, formerly of the Wall Street Journal. By Jeff Stein.

The rise of Le Pen in France is due to the failure of mainstream political parties to confront the racism of the National Front. Instead, they tried to co-opt it. By Mehdi Hasan.

“This is a war and we intend to win.” By Wes Enzinna.

As Israel moves towards confronting apartheid, the questions raised by the report will become impossible to avoid. By Mark LeVine. (Mar. 19, 2017)

It isn’t only Republicans, it seems, who traffic in alternative facts. By Mehdi Hasan.

Raheel Siddiqui was a young Muslim who dreamed of becoming a Marine. At twenty, he started basic training at Parris Island, where barking drill sergeants transform callow recruits into elite killing machines. Less than two weeks after he arrived, Siddiqui suffered a mysterious and fatal fall. The Marine Corps says he committed suicide, but some think more sinister forces led to his death. Alex French investigates.