Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them Schools Are Policing Black Kids’ Hair, and Betsy DeVos Needs to Stop Them
Efforts to “fix” black students’ hair are a vestige of our segregated past that deemed blackness inferior.
Mar 5, 2019 / StudentNation / Andre Perry
‘Disconnected Youth’ Is a Growing Crisis ‘Disconnected Youth’ Is a Growing Crisis
Unemployed and out of school, too many youth are seeing opportunities slip them by.
Feb 28, 2019 / Michelle Chen
Running the Democratic Primary Through ‘Trump Country’ Is the Road to Defeat Running the Democratic Primary Through ‘Trump Country’ Is the Road to Defeat
Yes, I'm looking at you, Bernie Sanders.
Feb 28, 2019 / Elie Mystal
Hollywood Is Still a Sundown Town for Black Representation Hollywood Is Still a Sundown Town for Black Representation
Yoruba Richen’s Green Book documentary captures the history and humanity missing from the Oscar-winning movie.
Feb 26, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman
Israeli Extremists Are Making a Comeback—With the Help of US Tax Dollars Israeli Extremists Are Making a Comeback—With the Help of US Tax Dollars
American nonprofits have funneled money to Meir Kahane’s followers, who now have a chance to enter the Knesset.
Feb 26, 2019 / Mairav Zonszein
Trump’s Time-Travel Adventure Trump’s Time-Travel Adventure
One man’s incompetence is another man’s principled discipline.
Feb 26, 2019 / Tom Tomorrow
The Obsession With Jussie Smollett’s ‘Hoax’ Is Obscuring the Real Threat of Racist Violence The Obsession With Jussie Smollett’s ‘Hoax’ Is Obscuring the Real Threat of Racist Violence
Where’s the media furor over real-live racists Christopher Paul Hasson and Roger Stone?
Feb 22, 2019 / Joan Walsh
The Southern Paradox: The Democratic Party Below the Mason-Dixon Line The Southern Paradox: The Democratic Party Below the Mason-Dixon Line
Why and how the region switched from being the stronghold of one party to the base of its adversary.
Feb 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism How the Failure of Our Foreign Wars Fueled Nativist Fanaticism
For nearly two centuries, US politicians have channeled extremism outward. But the frontier is gone, the empire is faltering, and the chickens are coming home to roost.
Feb 21, 2019 / Feature / Greg Grandin