A second casino vote in Virginia’s capital city is under way.
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why the Full Employment Created by Bidenomics Should Be Celebrated
The economy has many problems. But the labor market hasn’t been doing this well in many decades.
Posted inTAP
Newsom’s Choice
Today on TAP: In California (not to mention America), the racial and ethnic politics of representation are inescapable.
Posted inPolitics
The ‘Dobbs’ Strategy Heads South
Gubernatorial elections this fall in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana may clarify where Democrats can, and can’t, run on abortion.
Posted inPolitics
The GOP Is Beginning to Look Like Europe’s New Far-Right Parties
Holding their working-class base with racist, nativist demagogy may also require a little less laissez-faire.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Black Football Player Reclaims His Story
A book and hit movie depicted Michael Oher as a Black kid saved by adoptive white parents. Oher says that’s not the real story.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Jackson Out of Sight as Mississippi Goes to the Polls
The state’s water crisis hasn’t fully abated, but nobody’s talking about it on the campaign trail.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Demanding Equity in Higher Education
A new documentary, ‘The Five Demands,’ explores the 1969 student campus takeover that reshaped college education in New York.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Language Barriers Complicate the Geography of News Deserts
Lack of access to local bilingual news isolates people who speak little or no English.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How the March on Washington Changed the U.S.—and Me
Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path.
