Howell Raines

Howell Raines is a former executive editor of The New York Times and the author, most recently, of Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers From Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta—And Then Got Written out of History. He is also the author of an oral history of the civil-rights movement, My Soul Is Rested.

The Alabamafication of National Politics
What the race between Doug Jones and Tommy Tuberville says about America’s past and future
Howell Raines
July 5, 2026
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My Times
A year after the Jayson Blair scandal, the deposed executive editor of The New York Times answers his critics, acknowledges his mistakes, deconstructs the events that ended his tumultuous tenure, and provides a no-holds-barred assessment of what he sees as a great newspaper in crisis
Howell Raines
May 1, 2004

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