Race and Ethnicity

What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio

What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio What’s Really Happening in Springfield, Ohio

After Trump and Vance spread unfounded claims about Haitian migrants in the small town, this photographer went to see who and what are really there.

Oct 27, 2024 / Photo Essay / Jerome Sessini

Who’s the daddy? Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Tucker Carlson’s Weird Spanking Fantasy Is Designed to Stir Up MAGA Misogyny Tucker Carlson’s Weird Spanking Fantasy Is Designed to Stir Up MAGA Misogyny

By extolling Trump as “Daddy” meting out corporal punishment, the disgraced TV host is pitching authoritarian patriarchy.

Oct 25, 2024 / Jeet Heer

How the Harris Campaign’s Appeal to Black Men Misses the Mark

How the Harris Campaign’s Appeal to Black Men Misses the Mark How the Harris Campaign’s Appeal to Black Men Misses the Mark

In seeking to reverse declining Black men's support for Democrats, party leaders are replicating the measures that have disenchanted them. 

Oct 22, 2024 / Anthony Conwright

Abortion rights demonstrators march during a protest in New York.

New York’s Proposed Equal Rights Amendment Is the Most Inclusive Yet New York’s Proposed Equal Rights Amendment Is the Most Inclusive Yet

Over 20 states already have a version of the ERA, but Prop 1 would also prohibit reproductive discrimination and codify abortion access in the state.

Oct 22, 2024 / StudentNation / Nikole Rajgor

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Traverse City, Michigan.

JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories

Trump’s deluded fantasies have now become the GOP gospel.

Oct 18, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris takes the stage during a campaign rally on October 13, 2024, in Greenville, North Carolina.

Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem Black Men Will Vote for Harris—White Men Are the Problem

Why is the media talking so much about the fraction of Black men who might go MAGA when more than 60 percent of white men will vote for Trump?

Oct 16, 2024 / Elie Mystal

Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day

Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day

Indigenous Peoples' Day is commemorated on the second Monday in October in many parts of the United States.

Oct 15, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

An Amalgam of Immigrants Built This Country

An Amalgam of Immigrants Built This Country An Amalgam of Immigrants Built This Country

America’s long history of embrace and rejection.

Oct 8, 2024 / OppArt / Frances Jetter

A Year Ago Today

A Year Ago Today A Year Ago Today

A horrific attack and monstrous war with no end in sight.

Oct 7, 2024 / OppArt / Tayseer Barakat

A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a building destroyed in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp on September 19, 2024.

‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’

Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.

Oct 7, 2024 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun

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