How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action
In the coming days, the DOJ will borrow a page from the conservative playbook and likely sue Yale for violating the rights of white and Asian students.
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Eric Posner’s Democracy for the Few
A conservative gadfly joins “the Resistance.”
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The Color of Contagion
The pandemic has intensified racial disparities. We have to address them without reinforcing them.
Patricia J. WilliamsEducation
School Reopenings Are Only Going to Get More Chaotic
Trump gave up on controlling the virus, squandering our chance to reopen safely.
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the Democratic National Convention
Biden’s Grief Versus Trump’s Grievances
The two presidential candidates have very different approaches to loss.
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Watching a woman accept the nod as Number Two isn’t exactly as thrilling as watching her be nominated for president. But Harris made it very close.
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Deficit hawk rhetoric and austerity economics will undermine the winning coalition Biden needs to build.
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If Republicans Want a Fight Over the Post Office, Give It to Them
Don’t be fooled: The Republicans have been attacking the United States Postal Service for a long time. Trump just took advantage of it.
John Nichols and The Nation
As Democrats Leave Cities, Rural Areas See an Uptick in Voter Registration
A rural marketing campaign offering “solace in a more secluded setting” might give Republicans more than they bargained for.
Karen Rothmyer
School Reopenings Are Only Going to Get More Chaotic
Trump gave up on controlling the virus, squandering our chance to reopen safely.
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Culture
Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics
A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.
Robert Greene II
Who Gets to Tell the Story of Wuhan’s Lockdown?
On Fang Fang’s quarantine journal and the political limits of the diary.
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What Populism Is and Is Not
Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics.
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World
I Lost My Son in a Hail of Bullets at an Israeli Checkpoint
Israeli soldiers shot to kill after Ahmad's car crashed into a checkpoint. They insist he did it on purpose but have refused to do a real investigation.
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Swelling Protests in Belarus Signal a Possible Revolution of Love
The women’s solidarity protests have been in the streets since the August 9 election demanding honest elections and condemning police violence and torture.
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What Belarus Stands to Lose
Fixing the country’s broken democratic process can’t come at the cost of the inequality and corruption other former Soviet republics are now facing.
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View: Hong Kong’s Protesters Are Writing Their ‘Last Letters’
They fear being arrested or disappeared, and are not prepared to be silenced without a fight.
August 3, 2020
View: Tear Down the Monuments, Bring Our Cities to Life
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View: Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected
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