The Weekend Edition of Race Inquiry Digest features the top stories from the two previous Digests published during the week.  Click here for earlier Digests. 

Editor’s Note: What is the Trump Administration’s end game?  In some respects it might resemble the Maoist Cultural Revolution in China, which caused “widespread disruption to education, intellectual development and economic progress by creating political chaos, and shutting down schools and universities.” Chinese progress was set back decades. Sound familiar!  In fact, some Chinese observers refer to Trump derisively as “Comrade Trump.”

Political / Social

America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT   Read more 

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic  Read more 

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail. By Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic  Read more 

Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands. By Vimal Patel / NYT   Read more 

World News

U.S., China barrel toward the bottom in escalating trade war. By Cate Cadell , Lily Kuo  and Katrina Northrop / Wash Post  Read more 

Trump May Be Triggering the Fastest Nuclear Weapons Race Since the Cold War. By Michael Hirsh / Politico   Read more 

Civilised world must stop barbaric Russia by force, says Lithuanian president. By Khrystyna Bondarieva / Pravda  Read more 

Ethics / Morality / Religion

Trump’s USAID cuts contradict Jesus’ call to love thy neighbor. By Chris Coons / NCR   Read more 

MAGA’s war on empathy exposes misogynist fears. By Amanda Marcotte / Salon   Read more 

Historical / Cultural

Could Trump whitewash D.C.’s African American history museum?  By Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today   Read more 

What was the Jewish record on slavery? It’s (very) complicated. By Julia M. Klein / Forward   Read more 

Sports

50th Anniversary Of Lee Elder: The Black Golf Icon. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone     Read more 

The uncomfortable reality around this year’s Jackie Robinson Day. By Justin Tinsley / Andscape    Read more 

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