It all goes back to Nixon.
Civil Rights in America
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Demanding Equity in Higher Education
A new documentary, ‘The Five Demands,’ explores the 1969 student campus takeover that reshaped college education in New York.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How the March on Washington Changed the U.S.—and Me
Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path.
Posted inTAP
The Times and the Post Miss the Socialist Forest for the Trees
Today on TAP: The two national papers’ commemoration of the March on Washington profiled participants, but skipped their politics.
Posted inPolitics
Indicting the System That Bred Trumpism
These overdue charges take us only partway back to functioning democracy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Jay Powell’s Federal Reserve: Protection for Bankers, Pain for Everyone Else
Continuing interest rate hikes as the Black unemployment rate starts to tick up reveal a misunderstanding of monetary policy history.
Posted inPodcasts
Trump’s Legal Woes Mount
The disgraced former president is now facing probable racketeering charges.
Posted inTAP
Why It Feels Like the 1850s
Today on TAP: States that deny rights to women are demanding that free states do their bidding—with the help of courts.
Posted inPodcasts
Gig-ifying Hollywood
Film and television actors and writers are striking against low pay and bad working conditions.
Posted inPodcasts
Supreme Court Dog Days
With one hand, the Court enables discrimination. With the other, it steals $10,000 from student debtors.
