Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class.
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Hegseth, Xi, Stalin
Paranoid purges of generals and admirals are common to dictators and tin-pot wannabes.
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Whitening American History
Trump’s efforts to remove Black people from America’s story have been countered by scholars, activists, judges—and history itself.
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Resistance Comes to Higher Education
Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead end.
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King Trump Day
If you are Donald Trump, how do you acknowledge Martin Luther King Jr.? You can’t very well issue a celebratory proclamation, since Dr. King was the epitome of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Posted inWorking in America
To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Saving FEMA
Actual natural disasters might provide a reprieve for the broken agency.
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The NIH Funding Wars
Today on TAP: Are Republican senators more loyal to Trump, or to their home-state economies?
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Columbia Caves; Is Harvard Next?
Today on TAP: Despite Columbia’s deal with Trump, there is no guarantee that he won’t make new demands tomorrow.