Opinion
How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Hurts Black Communities. By Brandon Tensley / Capital B
Cornel West: ‘We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire.’ By John Dear / NCR
Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side. By Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe. By The Editorial Board / NYT
Barack Obama is not your emotional support president. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work? By Adam Harris / The Guardian
What the University of Virginia Should Have Done. By Timothy J. Heaphy / NYT
Public health expert: Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will cause misery and death. By Chauncey Devega / Salon (Image by CBS)
7 Trump-Era Court Cases That Threaten Civil Rights Protections. By Jonathan Forney / Capital B
How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts. By Jacob S. Hacker and Patrick Sullivan / NYT
How ‘Unwoke’ Black America Thought They Had it Made But Played Into the Far Right’s Decades-Long Masterplan to Elevate a Figure Like Trump. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran. By Robert Kagan / The Atlantic
Latinos Vote Differently Under Threat. By Mike Madrid / The Atlantic
Trump has become an easy mark — and so has America. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Virginia’s governor’s race could be a barometer for how voters feel about Trump. By Margaret Barthel / NPR
Women’s Health Care Has a Racism Problem. Trump’s War on DEI Is Making It Worse. By Madison Pauly / Mother Jones
Maybe Trump and Miller Don’t Understand Americans as Well as They Think They Do. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Ban Trump? Top genocide scholar issues dire warning. By Charles R. Davis / Salon
Americans disagree on much – but this week, we have found common ground. By Robert Reich / The Guardian
Why Trump’s get-tough-on-immigrants strategy will be hard to sustain. Editorial Board / Wash Post
Expert: Forcible removal of Sen. Alex Padilla signals a dangerous shift in American democracy. By Charlie Hunt / Salon
Why There are Barely Any Black Protesters in L.A. By Lawrence Ware / The Root
Trump Wants You to Get Used to This. By Ruth Ben-Ghiat / NYT
This Is What Autocracy Looks Like. By Michelle Goldberg / NYT
The incredible shrinking president. By Brian Karem / Salon
Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. By Ben Rhodes / NYT
The Supreme Court Just Cleared the Way for a Flood of “Reverse Discrimination” Lawsuits. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
The Invisible Majority: Black Millennials Hold the Key to America’s Political Future. By Jasmine Browley / BET
The ugly truth of Trump’s America first agenda. By Heather Digby Parton / Salon
Joy Reid: How MSNBC Tried to Silence Me Before Firing. By Eboni Boykin-Patterson / The Daily Beast
