There is right, and there is wrong. And having to watch patients die because legislators refused the administration’s Medicaid expansion—that’s just wrong, says physician Charlie van der Horst.
Race & Ethnicity
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Michael Boggs, an Unacceptable Judicial Nominee
However horrible Boggs is, the primary villains here, as is so often the case, reside in the World’s Worst Deliberative Body.
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A Question About Southern Culture and the Confederate Flag
Why is this the part of southern culture so many people spend so much effort honoring?
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Moral Monday Movement Gears Up for Round Two
As the North Carolina state legislature reopens on May 14 with no ideological reversal in sight, the Monday takeovers of the rotunda will resume. So, likely, will the arrests.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media
If left-leaning publications value diversity, why don’t they have any?
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Daily Meme: You Probably Should Check Your Privilege
Sometimes, in the wilds of the internet, all it takes to get people’s blood boiling is a screed from one college freshman. Such is the saga of Tal Fortgang, a Princeton first-year who wrote an inflammatory essay in the campus conservative magazine about being told to “check his privilege.”If you’re not familiar with the phrase […]
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The New Moral Panic Over Drug-Dependent Babies
As with the hyped-up crack-baby crisis, fears about neonatal abstinence syndrome appear to be overblown. But that won’t stop states from punishing pregnant women.
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Time for Democrats to Stop Celebrating Andrew Jackson
Democrats have rightly condemned the racist name of Washington, D.C.’s NFL team. So why do they continue to name their fundraising dinners after the president who presided over the genocide of Native Americans?
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All of a Piece: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the Supreme Court of the United States
This past week has been hell for African Americans. So much for post-racialism.
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Daily Meme: Racist Team Owner Loses Dignity; Keeps Team
Contemplating how best to celebrate the birthday of the late, great Edward Kennedy Ellington, one of the finest composers and orchestra leaders who ever lived, one might not have considered the banning for life of a racist team-owner from attending the games of his own team, but that’s not a bad way to fête the […]
