ECONOMICS AND THE BLACK VOTE. Conor Clarke has a very good piece at TNR making a should-be-obvious-but-totally-isn’t argument about why African Americans continue to vote for Democrats: because Democratic policy serves the economic interests of African Americans. Who’da thunk it?

–Sam Rosenfeld

Sam Rosenfeld, a former web editor for the Prospect, is visiting assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, beginning in September.