Students stage walkout in support of Texas principal suspended over suspected support of critical race theory

Have we entered America's third era of reconstruction?

West Virginia, a state first established in defiance of slavery, has recently become ground zero in the fight for voting rights. In an early June op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin vowed to maintain the Senate filibuster, while opposing the For the People

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How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take off

In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia. A slave agent concluded that the Africans drowned and died in an apparent mass suicide. But oral traditions would go on to

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Expert explains why 'systemic conservatism' continues to prevail in the US

On the Sunday after the November 3rd presidential election, Utah Senator Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, congratulated President-elect Joe Biden but insisted that the overall election was an endorsement of conservative principles. He pointed to the gains Republicans made in

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How younger generations are pushing back against their immigrant parents' racism

… being perpetuated regarding African American culture. He noted … cultural perspective about African Americans that has been … knowledge of African Americans and African American experience is … to African American individuals and the African American community …

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How the Supreme Court and the right wing found loopholes to erode the decades-old voting rights victories

On March 25, the day President Joe Biden held his first press conference and called bids by Republican state legislators to complicate voting "un-American," Georgia's legislature passed, and its Republican governor signed, 2021's most aggressive rewrite of voting rules. That same day in

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The Republican embrace of white Christian nationalism

A functioning democracy needs political parties to connect problems with solutions. In the current state of affairs, American democracy has only one effective democratic party. The other one has been drifting toward illiberalism in a trend that started long before Donald Trump became its

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New data from 2020 shows just how catastrophic COVID-19 is

COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020, a year defined in many ways by the deadly pandemic, This is the conclusion reached by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a report released on Wednesday. (The statistics are provisional, meaning that

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The burglary that exposed COINTELPRO: Activists mark 50th anniversary of daring FBI break-in

… truly blanket surveillance of African American people that was described. … they had observed about Black Americans. And in Washington, … FBI agent informing on Black Americans. The surveillance was so … suddenly see a young African American attorney who we knew …

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The seedy Georgia campaign reveals the right wing's animosity for the Black church: historian

Despite their professed commitments to religious freedom, Republicans often find themselves attacking people whose faith doesn't conform to the dominant views in the white evangelical community. This tendency has been on display in the campaign against Rev. Raphael Warnock, who is trying to unseat

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'A lying racist': Texas Lt. Gov. Abbott faces backlash after blaming Black people for his state's COVID surge

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's (R) attempt to blame unvaccinated African Americans for the surge in COVID cases in his state has been met with widespread opposition and backlash. On Thursday, August 19, Patrick appeared on Fox News where he offered his take on the surge in COVID cases across his

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Warnings of close links between Biden Cabinet picks and corporate power as incoming administration takes form

President-elect Joe Biden declared "America is back" this week as he revealed some of the people who will staff his administration in key national security posts, vowing to roll back Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and embrace multilateralism. Among his picks are longtime adviser Tony

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Progressives to Joe Biden: Don't you dare 'cooperate' with Mitch McConnell

Near the end of his well-crafted victory speech Saturday night, Joe Biden decried "the refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another." He went on to say that "we can decide to cooperate. And I believe that this is part of the mandate from the American people. They want us to

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Why New Yorkers saw through Trump's charade before many American voters did

by Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University

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How the right wing uses language as a weapon

Right-wing operatives have recently mounted a campaign against the idea and practice of "wokeness." The word has the pretense of a neutral reference, but is increasingly used to debase and belittle the underlying meaning of anti-racism and anti-bigotry. Similar rhetorical tactics have a long

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British journalist Mehdi Hasan slams Bill Maher for ‘brazen Islamophobia’ during a no-nonsense interview

Bill Maher, the outspoken host of "Real Time With Bill Maher" on HBO, has often been highly critical of organized religion — although he has said he considers Judaism the "coolest" of the western religions because it promotes a better quality of life on Earth. Progressive firebrand Mehdi

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Conservatives simply don't want majority rule. The filibuster has been their weapon since before the Civil War

Mitch McConnell's claim that "the filibuster is the essence of the Senate" has been tossed aside by his opponents as bad history, violently inconsistent with how Jefferson, Hamilton or Madison aimed to structure the Senate, and perhaps even unconstitutional. All true. But what

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Historian: We shouldn't defend democracy 'with half-truths about the past'

We often learn most from people who don't share our worldviews. German Carl Schmitt, a reactionary critic of democracy, provides uncanny insight into the uncivil war of opinion after the 2020 election. Constitutional democracies, Schmitt argues, seek a foundation in legality, that is rule by

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The dangerous myth about the so-called 'liberal' media is still going strong

It is an enduring belief that the vast majority of U.S. media are "liberal" or "leftist." This is a powerful myth, used by the political right to convince citizens that a secular, urban elite pushes a leftist agenda on the nation via television, newspapers and Internet. This notion wasn't invented

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We need to smash the GOP pipeline that produces sycophantic senators. Here's how to do it

Thom Tillis is one of the worst of the worst. The Republican senator from North Carolina has always been a mindless zealot for the conservative cause, but while he's now fighting for his political life as he seeks reelection in a race that could decide control of the Senate, it's critical we

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Republicans freak out over Black Olympic athlete’s nonviolent protest: 'The right really does love cancel culture'

Athlete Gwen Berry, who is on the U.S. Olympic team, recently protested against police brutality and racism by turning away from the American flag during a ceremony — and many Republicans are freaking out, not unlike all the Republicans who freaked out over African-American football players who

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How America's wars abroad are intimately tied to police brutality at home

When U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar decried Israel's 11-day aerial bombardment of Gaza this May and declared that "Palestinians deserve protection," Florida's Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio responded by saying that Israeli violence and U.S. support for it were justified because Israelis "live in a very

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How a defender of new GOP voting laws accidentally revealed their nefarious origin: legal experts

… areas with a lot of African-American residents. "Voting-restrictive bills … the state's largest African-American population. The Texas election bills … less 'antagonistic' toward African-American election participation," Brittain and …

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This is the most important election in human history — and Joe Biden finally gets why

One of the worst failings of political journalism in our time was just illustrated again. When Joe Biden delivered a path-breaking address on climate change, he drew less media coverage than a rumored shakeup in the Trump campaign. Do you care more about the fate of Republican grifters -- or the

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How Trump's law enforcement commission sought to create a 'dystopian police state'

President Donald Trump's critics have accused him of trying to bring about authoritarianism gradually — that is, death by 1000 cuts rather than an outright coup d'état. Phillip Atiba Goff, a professor of African-American studies at Yale University, warns that the U.S. could take a major step toward

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Historian warns America is already in its own 'slow-motion Reichstag Fire'

Donald Trump continues to make it clear that he does not intend to leave office peacefully if he is defeated by Joe Biden and the Democrats on Election Day. Moreover, Donald Trump considers any election in which he is not the "winner" to be null and void. Trump's appointment of Amy Coney

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The GOP is shrinking — and Democrats have a chance to create a real democracy: professor

If President Donald Trump loses to former Vice President Joe Biden on November 3 — assuming he doesn't manage to pull off a narrow Electoral College victory — we'll be forced to ask: "Where do the Republican Party and the conservative movement go from here?" As part of a beginning to the answer for

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Ralph Nader: The Democratic Party is controlled by smug, entrenched people living in the exclusive top one percent

The Republican and Democratic Parties have been evaluated in many ways but not often by the standard of sheer energy levels. Compare the ferocious drive by Trump, Republican Senators and Representatives, Attorneys General, and Governors in promoting, with baseless allegations and buckets of

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'Belief in an ongoing war of good and evil': Religious scholar explains QAnon's 'appeal among white evangelicals'

QAnon's potential for violence was made evident on January 6, when some of its supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol Building along with members of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and other far-right extremists. Daniel N. Gullotta, a religious scholar at Stanford University, examines the past and

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Trump’s effort to suppress Black votes could be sued as a 15th Amendment violation: legal expert

It is no coincidence that many of the major cities where President Donald Trump's campaign is making baseless claims of widespread voter fraud have large African-American communities, including Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. Black voters, for the most part, favored President-elect

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Watch: Meghan McCain's rant on Meghan Markle leaves Whoopi Goldberg visibly stumped

Meghan McCain slammed the British monarchy on Tuesday's episode of The View, declaring that "the American experiment is the way to go.""I do not want to defend the monarchy," McCain began her rant. "I'm a red-blooded 100% American who celebrates freedom anyway I can and always, so being in

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