Here’s the real Cleveland joke: the utter dissonance of the GOP celebrating its platform of inequality in this working-class, majority-black, decidedly Blue city, where Republican attempts to suppress minority votes pose a regular problem.
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This Is What Happened When I Took the MTA Bus to Pick Up Food Stamps
A response to a much-chattered-about article by an upper-middle-class white woman who was appalled to find herself judged when she applied for food stamps.
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Katrina v. Border Crisis: The Trouble With ‘Optics’
It isn’t only that we talk about image when we should be talking about substance. It’s also that we don’t understand what images do and don’t do.
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Campus Sexual Assault: I Am the One in the One in Five
But it took a colleague’s disbelief in that statistic to make me realize what had happened to me.
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Dear Thom Tillis: How Long Does It Take For a Black Person to Become a Traditional North Carolinian?
An open letter to the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, who is currently running for U.S. Senate, is prompted by his comments about the Republican Party’s demographics.
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Four Fundamental Econ Facts Missed By Economist Cantor-Slayer David Brat
Leaving aside his characterization of sub-Saharan Africans as less than productive, the economics professor who bumped the House Majority Leader from his post proves himself economically illiterate.
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Maureen Dowd Gets Way Too High
The New York Times columnist demonstrates the dangers of extrapolating from your personal experience, especially when you did something really stupid.
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Daily Meme: Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Amid the ordinary comings and goings of Washington and New York, today was mostly a day of goings-and their dissection. In an extraordinary interview with Dean Baquet, who succeeded the summarily ousted Jill Abramson as the New York Times’ executive editor, NPR’s David Folkenflik asked Baquet if it was true that maps on the walls […]
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Daily Meme: Fans of War Shoot at Straw Men
Yesterday, President Obama gave a speech at West Point outlining his vision for the use of American power in the future. So how did people react? The consensus on the right was that Obama’s speech was a litany of arguments against straw men. “In rebutting his many critics, Obama would be more persuasive if [he] […]
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Daily Meme: Joe the Plumber on ‘Dead Kids’ and His Gun
Remember Joe the Plumber? During the 2008 presidential race, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a plumber from Holland, Ohio, vaulted himself into campaign history after telling then-candidate Barack Obama that his proposed tax plan would prevent him from buying a small business. During the presidential campaign debate that followed, John McCain latched on to Wurzelbacher’s comments and […]
