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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.

Elie Mystal

History

Eric Posner’s Democracy for the Few

A conservative gadfly joins “the Resistance.”

Samuel Moyn
Health and Disease

The Color of Contagion

The pandemic has intensified racial disparities. We have to address them without reinforcing them.

Patricia J. Williams
Education

School Reopenings Are Only Going to Get More Chaotic

Trump gave up on controlling the virus, squandering our chance to reopen safely.

Zoë Carpenter
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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.

Jeet Heer

Kamala Harris Does Her Best to Redeem Our Sexist, Racist Past

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.

Joan Walsh

Biden Cannot Win (or Govern) as a Deficit Hawk

Deficit hawk rhetoric and austerity economics will undermine the winning coalition Biden needs to build.

John Nichols

Politics

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.

Zoë Carpenter

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.

Jaime Chu

What Populism Is and Is Not

Thomas Frank’s history of anti-populism helps clarify one of the most contested terms in politics. 

Edward Burmila

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. 

Najah Erekat

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.

Nasta Zakharevich

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. 

Vadim Nikitin

Watch and Listen

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

In Richmond, the sites of former monuments to the Confederacy have become lively spaces for activism and memorializing those lost to police violence.

July 13, 2020

View: Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected

I’m a guest in the Black Lives Matter movement, and making images is how I show my support.

June 29, 2020

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