National
The Con at the Core of the Republican Party. By Nina Burleigh / The New Republic
The Small-Town Nebraska Tim Walz Put Behind Him, but Never Fully Left. By Matt Flegenheimer / NYT
“It’s blanket opportunism”: “Rural America” author on “switch between” the “two different JD Vances.” By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Angela Alsobrooks makes a bid for Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
The movement to diversify Silicon Valley is crumbling amid attacks on DEI. By Naomi Nix , Cat Zakrzewski and Nitasha Tiku / Wash Post
I’m an evangelical against Trump … and genocide. By Shane Claiborne / RNS
Black praise in white pews: When your church doesn’t love you back. By J.C. Howard et al. / NPR
Raphael Warnock Lights Up the Convention With a Preacher’s Fire. By Jeet Heer / The Nation
Tim Walz and the ‘good neighbor’ election. By Jim Mc Dermott / NCR
Tulsa Race Massacre victims found with gunshot wounds. By Thao Nguyen / USA Today
60 Years Ago, Courage Confronted Racism at the Democratic Convention. By Margaret McMullian / The Bulwark
Trump Is Not Done With Us. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Harris introduces a muscular progressivism. By Jennifer Rubin / Wash Post
Nine Years of Trump Is a Warning We Must Heed. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT (Image CNN)
Teamsters’ Black Caucus Endorses Harris While Parent Union Stays Silent. By Maggie Astor / NYT
Never mind the immunity ruling. Trump can be prosecuted for Jan. 6. By Richard Lazarus / Wash Post
Ilhan Omar wins primary after other ‘Squad’ members Bush, Bowman lost. By Ken Tran / USA Today
At the Center of the Right-Wing Revival? Hating Immigrants. By Isabela Dias / Mother Jones
New College tosses hundreds of books, many on LGBTQ issues, race and women’s rights. By Matt Lavietes / NBC News
Evangelicals for Harris? Democratic ticket draws surprising support. By Liam Adams / USA Today
Granddaughter of the Late Rev. Billy Graham: Christians Who Support Donald Trump are Causing People to Turn Away From Christianity. By Dave Malyon / Knewz
At Buddhist-Christian dialogue, finding solidarity amid shifting religious landscape. By Michael Woolf / RNS
Meet Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard’s first Black graduate who was accepted into the school as an “experiment.” By Prosper Kuzo / Face2Face
Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South. By Aallyah Wright / Capital One
The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question. By Julian E. Zelizer / The Atlantic
Bronze statue of John Lewis replaces more than 100-year-old Confederate monument. By Ron Harris / ABC News
How the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument Can Help Us Reckon With Racial Trauma. By Jewel Wicker / Capital One
“I didn’t know she was Black”: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and skin-color racism. By Mohammad Ali Salih / Salon
A competition for domination: Harris has Trump beat at his own game. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Trump-Musk Snoozefest. By William Kristol and Adrew Agger / The Bulwark
