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To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ▪ Fall 2018 Richard Nixon, HUD ...
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For conservatives around the world, Israel’s democratic deficit is a feature, not a bug—an alternative constitutional model that defies liberal universalism. Suzanne Schneider ▪ Spring 2024 ...
The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes. Only a movement can pressure Congress to act. It is a little-known and disturbing fact that the ...
Black inhabitants of the South did not respond uniformly to the rules and folkways of Jim Crow, nor do they see its demise in quite the same way. Two recent books use the authority of testimony to ...
Basic Books, 2020, 528 pp. The Clint Eastwood Western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), a genre-defining fantasy of anti-government violence, finds redemption for the failed ideas of the white South in ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, 368 pp. The United States today is less a nation of citizens equal under the law than a nation of citizens living in unequal zip codes. Where we live is both a cause and ...
Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications. Sam Klug ▪ ...
The left tends to dismiss corporate pandering to identity politics as insincere and inconsequential. It does so at its peril. Steve Fraser ▪ Winter 2022 “There was an economic imperative at the ...
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era. Robert Greene ▪ November 10, 2017 Harold Cruse, Stokely Carmichael, ...