We pretend that billionaires like Donald Sterling care about fines, just like we pretend they’re displaying great character when they give away some money.
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Who’s Got the Political Will to Save the Middle Class?
The changes that are necessary to arrest this decline are so fundamental that they virtually require a new political order.
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The Politics of Pain
How do liberals and conservatives view suffering? Two leading experts discuss.
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The Conflicted Voter
Democrats are leading on issues, while Republicans are still likely to win in the fall. This is why we have to suffer through campaigns.
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All of a Piece: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the Supreme Court of the United States
This past week has been hell for African Americans. So much for post-racialism.
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Daily Meme: Racist Team Owner Loses Dignity; Keeps Team
Contemplating how best to celebrate the birthday of the late, great Edward Kennedy Ellington, one of the finest composers and orchestra leaders who ever lived, one might not have considered the banning for life of a racist team-owner from attending the games of his own team, but that’s not a bad way to fête the […]
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Daily Meme: Post-Racial America From Hell
It’s been quite a week in post-racial America, beginning with a Supreme Court decision on Tuesday that upheld the results of a ballot measure that barred the use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process used by the University of Michigan, and exploded this weekend with the utterances, attributed to NBA team-owner Donald Sterling […]
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Words, Ideas, Actions, and the Tangle of Race
As people from Cliven Bundy to Donald Sterling to Paul Ryan are finding out, sometimes language isn’t really the problem.
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For the U.S., Israel and Palestine: What’s Plan B?
As a concept, the two-state solution is more broadly accepted than ever, even as achieving it seems more remote.
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In Defense of Mitch McConnell–Sort Of
Maybe if we stopped expecting every candidate to promise us that they’ll singlehandedly change Washington and politics and America, they’d stop doing it. McConnell may be onto something.
