Why do so many white people believe that the president has their best interests at heart?
Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson, an American Prospect board member, is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the 2026 winner for Opinion/Op-Ed from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the 2025 winner for both Social Justice and Crisis Commentary from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
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Facts Again Go Missing as Trump Declares Opioid Addiction a National Health Emergency
During a speech last week declaring opioid addiction a national public health emergency, President Trump made the extraordinary claim that 64,000 American lives were lost last year due to drug overdoses. “More people are dying from drug overdoses today than from gun homicides and motor vehicles combined,” he said. Trump continued to embellish his case, […]
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White Nationalist Bigotry Is the Official Policy of Trump’s White House
Conservatives who indignantly hounded African Americans from government jobs during the Clinton and Obama administrations haven’t batted an eye at the overt racism of Donald Trump’s appointees.
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Race and Representation in the Twilight of the Obama Era
Will the eight years of America’s first black president lead to more political voice for black citizens—or less?
