Racism and Discrimination

Gary Youngkin

Can “Glenn Trumpkin” Both Embrace and Escape the Disgraced Ex-President? Can “Glenn Trumpkin” Both Embrace and Escape the Disgraced Ex-President?

Running for Virginia governor, Youngkin is trying to have it both ways with the GOP base.

Oct 19, 2021 / Joan Walsh

A Rikers Island protest

How to Solve the Crisis on Rikers Island How to Solve the Crisis on Rikers Island

The dangerously overcrowded and mismanaged jail must be closed—but even before then, there are things we can do right now to keep people out and send them home faster.

Oct 19, 2021 / Elizabeth Gaynes

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways? Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development insists it’s “inclusive,” but it’s still strong-arming countries in the Global South.

Oct 19, 2021 / Steven Dean

How NOT to Talk About Race

How NOT to Talk About Race How NOT to Talk About Race

The right wants to convince America that critical race theory is a sinister program of indoctrination.

Oct 18, 2021 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

Tuskegee Study Drawing Blood

America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By America as a “Shining City on a Hill”—and Other Myths to Die By

Time to begin the dirty, essential work of undigging our history, before it kills us all.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Gregg Gonsalves

Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again

Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again Democrats Are Ready to Abandon Black Voters, Again

The data scientist David Shor is urging Democrats to dump their racial justice message if they want to maintain any power. That’s a terrible idea.

Oct 13, 2021 / Elie Mystal

George Floyd, Born This Day in 1973

George Floyd, Born This Day in 1973 George Floyd, Born This Day in 1973

Memorials created after his murder by police in 2020.

Oct 13, 2021 / OppArt / Fly Orr

The Unsure State of Asian America

The Unsure State of Asian America The Unsure State of Asian America

A conversation with Jay Caspian Kang about how the term “Asian American” became “mostly meaningless.”

Oct 13, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Rosemarie Ho

Rio Grande Border Agents

America’s Long History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants America’s Long History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants

Recent images of Border Patrol agents chasing down Haitians have sparked outrage, but the US has been rounding up, detaining, and deporting asylum seekers from Haiti for decades.

Oct 12, 2021 / Column / Ibrahim Hirsi

Xinjiang surveillance

How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy

The camps in Xinjiang and undocumented work in the US are part of the same continuum of unfreedom.

Oct 12, 2021 / Darren Byler

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