Opinion
Nathan Phillips and the boys from Covington: What does this ugly encounter say about America? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Martin Luther King Jr. would be outraged. By Colbert King / Wash Post
The Disturbing, Surprisingly Complex Relationship Between White Identity Politics and Racism. By Isaac Chotiner / The New Yorker
Bryan Stevenson Wants the U.S. to Face Its History. Interview by Jamie Lowe / NYT
The GOP distanced itself from Steve King. Is it signaling a shift on Trump? By Geoffrey Kabaservice / Wash Post
The MAGA Teenager Who Harassed a Native American Veteran Is Still Unnamed, but We’ve Seen His Face Before. By Ruth Graham / Slate
A new Supreme Court is poised to take a chunk out of MLK’s legacy. By John Blake / CNN
Trump doesn’t want a wall, all he wants is an issue. By Lucian K. Truscott IV / Salon
Donald Trump: Racist liar, or just a liar who happens to be a racist? By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
The GOP must stamp out the seeds of hatred before it’s too late. Henry Olsen / Wash Post
Trump’s border wall isn’t about national security. It’s about stoking racial resentment. By Jason Sattler / USA Today
Russia Is Exploiting American White Supremacy Over and Over Again. By Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast
Traveling While Negro. By Cynthia Tucker / The Bitter Southerner
“We’re going to impeach the motherfucker.” Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Lots Of Us Think Trump Is A Motherf**ker Who Should Be Impeached. Rashida Tlaib Just Said It Out Loud. By Michelangelo Signorile / HuffPost
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women. By Susan Chira / NYT
Trump’s border wall was never just about security. It’s meant to remind all Latinos that we’re unwelcome. By Julio Ricardo Varela / NBC News
The Kernel of Human (or Rodent) Kindness. What we can learn from lab rats that don’t show empathy for other rats. By Henry James Garrett / NYT
White evangelical Christians need Jesus — not Donald Trump — if their movement is going to survive. By David B. Gowler / Salon
The Path to the Presidency Could Be Harder for White Democrats in 2020. By Jemelle Bouie / Slate
From 1968 to 2018: Angela Davis on Freedom Struggles Then and Now, and the Movements of the Future. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
We Are All Riders on the Same Planet. By Matthew Myer Boulton and Joseph Heithaus / NYT
Were black voters bamboozled by Russia? It’s nowhere near that simple. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
FIRST STEP Act must be a stepping stone to much more aggressive reform. By Inimai Chettiar and Ames Grawert / USA Today
Lebron Concludes NFL Owners Have a ‘Slave Mentality’, NFL Owners Dispute This Notion By Demonstrating Exactly That. By Jay Connor / The Root
It’s time to face the facts: Racism is a national security issue. By Gwen Ifill / Wash Post
Russia and Republicans attempt to suppress black vote, but Russians are slicker. By Joe Davidson / Wash Post
I’m for Affirmative Action. Can You Change My Mind? Gary Gutting / NYT
This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? Ibram X. Kendi / The Guardian
Bush Made Willie Horton an Issue in 1988, and the Racial Scars Are Still Fresh – Peter Baker / NYT
Sins of the Fathers: The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? Paul Duggan / Wash Post
