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.
Youth
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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.
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A Hard Days Night and Beatlemania: The West’s Last Outbreak of Optimism Disease
How much the Beatles helped create the ’60s and how much the ’60s helped create the Beatles is one of the great chicken-and-egg questions.
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Photo Essay: Moral Mondays’ Potent Symbols and Creative Actions
So far in the 2014 North Carolina legislative session, lawmakers have witnessed weekly actions: a silent protest, a sit-in in the Speaker’s office, and prayerful bread-breaking by the activists of the Moral Monday movement, chronicled here in a photo
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The Three Curses Faced By Democrats — And How to Lift Them
In creating a better political future, it is better to be cursed with youth than blessed with age.
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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 Next Christian Sex-Abuse Scandal
As sex-abuse allegations multiply, Billy Graham’s grandson is on a mission to 
persuade Protestant churches to come clean.
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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: The Court’s Faux Colorblindness
“A blinkered view of race in America won out in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when six justices agreed, for various reasons, to allow Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education … ” So starts the New York Times‘s righteous take-down of today’s Supreme Court ruling in Schuette v. BAMN, in which […]
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Hillary Clinton, Youth Candidate
Republicans will nominate someone younger than her, and it won’t make a difference to young people.
