“As a campaigner, Hillary can do a shot and a beer better than Barack Obama can,” Shapiro says. So there’s that.
Race & Ethnicity
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There Is No Border Crisis: There Are Frightened Children, Fleeing Death
America’s response to child refugees from Central America is downright shameful.
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How Two Centrist Dems May Herald a Progressive Future for Georgia
As Republicans head to the polls to select a U.S. Senate candidate who will almost certainly hail from the right, Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter–daughter of Senator Sam and grandson of President Jimmy–take the middle path on a road destined to veer left.
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Go Ahead, Bash My City: I Can Take It
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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Why Democrats Need to Take Sides in America’s Class War
Straddling class divisions is so last century. There’s a new base in town, and it includes a lot of people who used to be middle-class but aren’t anymore.
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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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Justice Samuel Alito’s Deep Roots in the American Right
He’s the most pro-corporate jurist on the Supreme Court. So decisions that grant companies religious rights or take aim at labor unions come quite naturally to him.
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Courtroom Drama: Voting Rights Paid for in Blood Under Siege in North Carolina
“It was, bar none, the worst legislative process I’ve ever been through,” Rep. Rick Glazier told the U.S. District Court.Â
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Without Economic and Educational Justice, There Is No Racial Justice
A half-century after Freedom Summer, African Americans continue to face severe barriers not just to voting, but also to economic security.
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Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
