Racism and Discrimination

Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ

In The Passage of Power, Robert Caro shows that LBJ’s brilliance as a politician lay not in his idealism but his opportunism.

Nov 20, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

Colleges’ Elitist Legacy Preference Colleges’ Elitist Legacy Preference

In university admissions, why are we preferencing the already-privileged? 

Nov 20, 2012 / StudentNation / Scott Stern

Rinku Sen: ‘We Are the Majority and We Demand Justice’

Rinku Sen: ‘We Are the Majority and We Demand Justice’ Rinku Sen: ‘We Are the Majority and We Demand Justice’

As we saw in this election, people of color can no longer be called "minorities." It's time to seize that power in the fight for true equality.

Nov 19, 2012 / Rinku Sen

The Modern GOP Thrives on Lee Atwater’s Strategy of Coded Racism The Modern GOP Thrives on Lee Atwater’s Strategy of Coded Racism

In the recent election cycle, the GOP played to racial anxieties the same way Lee Atwater did two decades ago.

Nov 16, 2012 / Press Room

The Real Loser of 2012: White Supremacy

The Real Loser of 2012: White Supremacy The Real Loser of 2012: White Supremacy

In 2012, white supremacy not only lost the election. It was a crucial factor in explaining how Obama won.

Nov 15, 2012 / William Greider

The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust

Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?

Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly

The GOP’s Cultivated Prejudices The GOP’s Cultivated Prejudices

Republicans’ pandering to white voters—at the exclusion of American minorities—killed their chances in the 2012 election.

Nov 12, 2012 / Chris Hayes

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

New voting restrictions prove why the Voting Rights Act is as relevant as it ever was.

Nov 12, 2012 / Ari Berman

Aging White Guys: The Real Losers of 2012 Aging White Guys: The Real Losers of 2012

In 2012, white supremacy not only lost the election. It was a crucial factor in explaining how Obama won.

Nov 8, 2012 / William Greider

A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’ A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Nov 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

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