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Adam Serwer

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Prospect and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also blogs at Jack and Jill Politics and has written for The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The Root, and the Daily News.

Recent Articles

MORE OPPRESSION OLYMPICS.

Adam SerwerMay 15, 2008

Like Marie Cocco, I could come up with my own list of Media Matters clips and offensive merchandise that I could use to argue definitively that racism is worse than sexism. But I'm not sure what that would prove, other than that I believe the prejudice I've faced is qualitatively worse than the prejudice I know nothing about. I see racism and sexism as intertwined if not interdependent, so I don't understand why for some people the Democratic primary has become a competition over who has it worse.

WHICH AFFIRMATIVE ACTION?

Adam SerwerMay 14, 2008

One of the problems with discussions about Affirmative Action it never seems clear which AA we're talking about. Matthew Yglesias and Ta-Nehisi Coates both argue that Barack Obama should come out for a class-based approach while avoiding racial demagoguery.

ATTORNEY GENERAL EDWARDS?

Adam SerwerMay 14, 2008

The Caucus has more on the Edwards endorsement:

Mr. Edwards has carefully played down his aspirations for an administration role. In an interview in January, he said he would not accept a vice-presidential spot or Cabinet position. “No, absolutely not,” he said, shaking his head emphatically when asked.

But privately, he told aides that he would consider the role of vice president, and favored the position of attorney general, which would appeal to his experience of decades spent in courtrooms as a trial lawyer in North Carolina; and his desire to follow in the footsteps of Robert F. Kennedy, one of his heroes.

THE WANING POWER OF RACE IN THE DIRTY DIRTY.

Adam SerwerMay 14, 2008

Last night was the second southern election in which Republicans tried to derail a Democrat in a conservative congressional district by tying him to Barack Obama. Nevertheless, Democrat Travis Childers defeated Republican Greg Davis by eight points, despite Davis' attempts to make Mississippi think he was really running against Rev. Jeremiah Wright. E.J.

THEY TOO, ARE AMERICA.

Adam SerwerMay 13, 2008

Despite the blubbering from folks like Pat Buchanan that we are about to "lose the American Southwest" to Latino immigrants, The Washington Post reports that they are assimilating even faster than the folks who came here at the turn of the 20th Century. European immigrants a hundred years ago were not, it turns out, somehow qualitatively "different" than the current influx of new Americans.

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