Opinion
Jim Crow Republicans seek to repeat America’s dark history. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Instead of ‘Defund the Police,’ Solve All Murders. By Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
What Philadelphia Reveals About America’s Homicide Surge. By Alec MacGillis / Propublica
Gretchen Whitmer Says Kamala Harris Is Unfairly Treated Because of Race and Gender. By Steve Friess / Newsweek
Democrats are on the verge of repeating a historic blunder on voting rights. By John Blake / CNN
Democratic Leaders Are Betraying Black Voters. By Adam Serwer / The Atlantic
Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that’s not a metaphor. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Void That Critical Race Theory Was Created to Fill. By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
Why Top Democrats Are Listening to Eric Adams Right Now. By Katie Glueck / NYT
Lessons from segregated schools can help make today’s classrooms more inclusive. By Sara Schley and Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton / The Conversation
How Racist Is America? By David Brooks / NYT
America’s history wars get serious: Texas GOP wants to dump MLK, whitewash KKK. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Clarence Thomas Is the new Chief Justice. By Jeffrey Toobin /CNN
The Deeply Racist Dimensions To Ashli Babbitt’s Martyrdom. By Josh Kovensky / TPM
We Are Leaving ‘Lost Einsteins’ Behind. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
Why Illinois’s new law requiring Asian American history in schools is so significant. By Li Zhou / Vox
Eric Adams Is Going to Save New York. By Brett Stephens / NYT
Why Christians Must Fight Systemic Racism. By Esau McCaulley / NYT
My Black Generation Is Fighting Like Hell to Stop the Whitelash. By Elie Mystal / The Nation
This historian predicted Jan. 6. Now he warns of greater violence. By Dana Milbank / Wash Post
‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history. By Eric Easter / Wash Post
We need Nelson Mandela’s example more than ever today. How the South African leader’s radical empathy can help the US today. By John Blake / CNN
How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance By Michael Kranish / Wash Post
The power of the Big Lie: Why do 30% of Americans cling to Trump’s dark fantasy? By Chauncey Devega / Salon
Republicans’ racist 2022 playbook is the same one that lost them the House, Senate, and White House. By Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos
