The newly elected mayor of London has some choice words for Donald Trump and the presumptive GOP nominee’s brand of Islamophobia.
Race & Ethnicity
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Europe Goes American, and That Ain’t Good
The same racial, religious, and ethnic tensions that have long divided America are now unraveling Northern Europe’s bonds of solidarity.
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Learning from History: The Prospects for School Desegregation
An interview with Ansley Erickson.Â
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White Supremacy and Trump’s Battle for the ‘Soul of America’
The presumptive GOP nominee is reviving Patrick Buchanan’s legacy of bigotry.
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Yes, Sometimes It Is Anti-Semitism
The crisis in Britain’s Labour Party has some wider lessons for progressives.Â
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Warren Calls on Banks to Invest in Minority Neighborhoods, Businesses
Senator Elizabeth Warren recently warned that minority families and businesses continue to suffer disproportionately from the lingering effects of the Great Recession and called on the country’s banks to step up to assist local communities. Warren noted that most Americans experienced severe hardships during the economic downturn. “In 2013, the median income of white households […]
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Foreign Bodies
The volatile mixture of religiously tinged nationalism with massive social disruption and large-scale population movements threatens once again to become explosive in Europe.
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As GOP Reconsiders Trump as Standard-Bearer, Candidate Retweets White Supremacist
Remember that plan to broaden the party’s appeal to non-whites?
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The Jackie Robinson Story: Ken Burns Documentary Captures the Man and the Movement
The Ken Burns documentary airing on PBS this week demonstrates how the fight to break baseball’s racial barrier went beyond Robinson’s personal heroism and rested on a broad political movement.
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Republicans Haven’t Stopped Digging Their Hole with Latino Voters
Remember the Etch A Sketch? It’s going to be awfully hard to shake up in the fall.
