A Q&A with economist Steven Pitts on why Trump can’t take credit for the low figures
Civil Rights in America
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Everybody Knows About Alabama
Doug Jones’s victory and a new play drawing on Nina Simone’s songs illustrate the opportunities and challenges we face in 2018.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Are Jews White? It’s a Mistake Even to Ask
Trump has revived American anti-Semitism. It’s not about color or race.
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One Is a Great Man. The Other Is the President-Elect.
On John Lewis and Donald Trump
Posted inSpecial Report
Toward Racial Healing
We must work together as a nation to confront and defeat racism.
Posted inSpecial Report
The New Case for Marriage
Marriage is undeniably a changed institution, because wedlock is no longer obligatory on the old patriarchal terms. For women this has been a hard-won, historic victory. Divorce became easier starting with the first wave of feminism in the early 1900s, and the second wave, beginning in the 1960s, obtained for women more kinds of work, […]