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The Inevitable Whitelash Against Racial Justice Has Started

As Black people fight for our lives, white supremacists reach for their guns—and white allies go soft.

Elie Mystal

Republicans

Jacob Blake Was Shot in Kenosha, a City Adrift in a Moral Desert

The crisis of policing in one Wisconsin city illustrates a national calamity. Yet Republicans—both nationally and in Wisconsin’s capital—block even modest reform.

John Nichols
Politics

Trump Embraces the Samson Option

Inciting violence may not win Trump the election. But it still advances his agenda.

Jeet Heer
Homeland security

US Law Enforcement’s Warrior Complex Is on Full Display in the Streets—and in Leaked Documents

Hacked documents from the early weeks of the ongoing protest movement illustrate one of Black Lives Matter’s central observations: Policing in the United States functions as a military occupation.

Chris Gelardi
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Politics

We Need to Talk About the GOP’s ‘Black Friends’

The Republican National Convention has been all about using Black people to convince white people it’s OK to vote for a bigot.

Elie Mystal

Donald Trump Has Declared Himself Impotent

A pitiful, hapless tyrant of a president blames the problems his administration has caused on out-of-office Joe Biden.

Joan Walsh

Death Was the Theme of Both the RNC and the DNC

Both parties are responding to the fact that America is being shadowed by death in a way it hasn’t been since the great wars of the last century.

Jeet Heer

Culture

The Culture Is Still Catching Up With Georgia Anne Muldrow

Whether in jazz, rap, or R&B, she has made music out of liberation.

Marcus J. Moore

How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America

In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.

Marcia Chatelain

What We Talk About When We Talk About Catastrophe

In Elisa Gabbert’s new essay collection, she tries to untangle the fickle and contradictory ways humans deal with disaster.

Rachel Vorona Cote

World

Letter From Seoul

“South Korea is not looking to the US to show the way anymore.”

Kristin R. Pak

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

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

Listen: Edge of Sports: Ariyana Smith Has A Story To Tell

Ariyana Smith joins the show to talk about the recent explosion of Black Lives Matter activism in sports.

August 25, 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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