Racism and Discrimination

The Fraternal Order of Police Wants Off-Duty Cops to Be Armed Inside a Stadium Near You

The Fraternal Order of Police Wants Off-Duty Cops to Be Armed Inside a Stadium Near You The Fraternal Order of Police Wants Off-Duty Cops to Be Armed Inside a Stadium Near You

Using Paris as a pretext and sports as backdrop, the FOP wants to be armed on NFL Sunday, which will make all of us less safe.

Dec 3, 2015 / Dave Zirin

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, seen with their newborn daughter, Max, have transferred the majority of the family's Facebook stock options to a foundation the two control.

Here’s How the Left Should Think About the Chan-Zuckerberg Announcement Here’s How the Left Should Think About the Chan-Zuckerberg Announcement

Could the Facebook family change the status quo of Silicon Valley philanthropy?

Dec 3, 2015 / Amy Schiller

William F Buckley Jr.

Happy Birthday, ‘National Review’! Too Bad You Haven’t Grown Any Wiser With Age. Happy Birthday, ‘National Review’! Too Bad You Haven’t Grown Any Wiser With Age.

The GOP’s reliable source of awful ideas celebrates 60 years of being wrong.

Dec 3, 2015 / Column / Eric Alterman

Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel?

Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel? Why Are Democrats Silent on Rahm Emanuel?

If you care about police brutality, you care even when “your team” needs to be held accountable.

Dec 3, 2015 / George Zornick

Alabama Capitol

Alabama’s Controversial Voter-ID Law Is Challenged In Court Alabama’s Controversial Voter-ID Law Is Challenged In Court

One day after the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, civil-rights groups charge Alabama with violating the Voting Rights Act.

Dec 2, 2015 / Ari Berman

Linda and Keshawn Green pose in their backyard and (inset below) with Charles Green, loving husband and dad, who is serving a life sentence.

2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit. 2.7 Million Kids Have Parents in Prison. They’re Losing Their Right to Visit.

States have gutted family visitation programs in reaction to prison overcrowding, and racist ideas about black sexuality.

Dec 2, 2015 / Feature / Sylvia A. Harvey

Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out

Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out Not Everyone in North Carolina Wants to Keep Refugees Out

In spite of what North Carolina’s governor has said, many in the state welcome religious and ethnic diversity—but their voices have been drowned out in the wake of the Paris attack...

Dec 1, 2015 / Phoebe Zerwick

The Power of Moral Mondays

The Power of Moral Mondays The Power of Moral Mondays

Reverend Barber’s multi-racial movement for justice.

Dec 1, 2015 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A student shows signs made for a sit-in to demand a range of changes to improve the social and academic experience of black students, at Princeton University, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Princeton, N.J.

Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, and the Complex Landscape of Race

The debates over Wilson’s legacy ought to push us to initiate even broader conversations about the presence and power of the past in daily life.

Dec 1, 2015 / Martha A. Sandweiss

Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School

Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School

Much of what students are taught, and much of what most Americans think they know, about Parks’s activism is wrong.

Dec 1, 2015 / Jeanne Theoharis and Say Burgin

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