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: The cleverest protest sign this week: (M)orons (A)re (G)overning (A)merica. While the motives for Trump’s tariffs are still being debated, analysts predict the outcome can be distilled into two words: corruption and dominance. The Administration is developing an appetite for investigating, incarcerating and/or deporting immigrant non-citizens and even citizens who oppose their policies. Christina Greer in her prescient essay in the NYT argues that, “Black Americans Are Not Surprised.”
Political / Social
Trump Just Bet the Farm. By Thomas L. Freidman / NYT Read more
Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT Read more
Thousands protested Trump nationwide in towns big and small. By Sarah D. Wire / USA Today Read more
Erasing Opportunity: How Trump’s Education Policies Harm Black College Students. By Iyana Moore / Ed Trust Read more
World News
Trump and Netanyahu Steer Toward an Ugly World, Together. By Thomas L. Freidman / NYT Read more
This Is Not the Right Way to Curb Migration. Rebecca Hanson, David Smilde and
Ethics / Morality / Religion
American hell. In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his refrain. By Isaac S. Villegas / Christian Century Read more
“The Most Important Spiritual Discovery Of All Time.” By Tom Rapsas / Patheos Read more
Historical / Cultural
Donald Trump’s War on History. By David Corn / Mother Jones Read more
Black Americans Are Not Surprised. By Christina Greer / NYT Read more
From the Confederacy to the Gilded Age: Manisha Sinha on the “sorry history” that inspires MAGA. By Charles R. Davis / Salon Read more
Sports
The Dodgers Are Planning to Visit the White House. It’s a Disgrace. By Dave Zirin / The Nation Read more
Why the ‘Tiger Woods Effect’ failed to reshape the PGA Tour. By Michael Lee / Wash Post Read more
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