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movie review
Nov. 17, 2023
The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Change the Rules of the Game Two major end-of-term decisions show that John Roberts’s pledge to just call “balls and strikes” was disingenuous.
By Ankush Khardori
affirmative action
June 12, 2023
Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
remembrance
Apr. 26, 2023
Harry Belafonte Dragged Us Into the Future The late legend ditched stardom for something far greater.
By Craig Jenkins
Karl Ashanti Defended the NYPD, Then He Was Arrested For 11 years, the police lawyer defended the NYPD in civil-rights cases. Then he was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.
By Jake Pearson
Fiona Apple Logs On to Advocate for Civil Rights (Of Course) Calling a Maryland county “stupid asshole babies” for restricting court watchers’ access.
By Zoe Guy
Biden Didn’t Have the Power or Luck to Become FDR or LBJ Biden is trying to govern in an era totally unlike the 1930s or 1960s with little margin for error and a lot of nasty surprises. Give him a break.
By Ed Kilgore
Biden Leaps Into Fight With Republican Governors Over School Mask Mandates Though the dispute will wind up in court, the administration is using some creative ideas to stop GOP leaders from blocking mask mandates.
By Ed Kilgore
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Officers in George Floyd’s Death Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers have been indicted on charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.
By Nia Prater
What the Filibuster Has Cost America The damage has been massive, and it’s past time for reform.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Nov. 15, 2020
How Georgia Became the Ultimate Battleground State Georgia Democrats have slowly come back after brief successes under Carter and Clinton. But in the January Senate runoffs, they have their big chance.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 15, 2020
Will 2020 Be Jimmy Carter’s Revenge? The Democratic South is rising again, but this time it’s multiracial and progressive.
By Ed Kilgore
past is prologue
Sept. 15, 2020
The Reasons To Not Like Ike As the new Eisenhower Memorial opens, a more measured examination of the 34th president and his legacy is appropriate.
By Ed Kilgore
civil rights
July 29, 2020
D.C.’s Lone Representative Thinks She Might Have Some Company in Congress Soon “You feel that you are not treated as an American citizen in your own country,” she told Intelligencer.
By Sarah Jones
No, Uncle Joe, Trump Is Hardly Our First Racist President Trump may rival the most racist of presidents given the context of their times, but he hardly invented presidential racism.
By Ed Kilgore
filibuster reform
July 20, 2020
Could Civil Rights Force Democrats to Kill the Filibuster? Voting rights and racial-justice legislation may provide the perfect reason for Democrats to unite in favor of filibuster reform.
By Ed Kilgore
Actually, D.C. Is Full of ‘Real People’ GOP senators are sounding some old-fashioned dog whistles while arguing against statehood for Washington, D.C.
By Sarah Jones
what’s past is prologue
June 19, 2020
What Will It Take to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday? The long struggle for Martin Luther King Jr. Day offers lessons that could ease the path to making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
By Ed Kilgore
The Supreme Court’s Unlikely Intersectionality Gorsuch and Roberts may never admit it, but with today’s ruling they rejected the pitting of historically marginalized groups against each other.
By Irin Carmon
insurrection act
June 4, 2020
Tom Cotton Is Wrong About the Insurrection Act There’s really no recent precedent for presidents’ sending in the troops without the consent of governors who aren’t in open rebellion.
By Ed Kilgore
drunk history
May 18, 2020
The Pandemic Has Led to an Outbreak of Terrible Historical Analogies Trump and his allies are using the coronavirus to warp history. We can’t ignore their delusions.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
civil rights
May 12, 2020
The Woman at the Center of a Major Trans Rights Case Has Died Aimee Stephens, whose life was at the center of a case currently being heard by the Supreme Court, died at home on Tuesday.
By Sarah Jones
Does TikTok Have a Major Security Problem? The video-sharing app, popular among teens, says it has fixed its network vulnerabilities.
By Hannah Gold
Haley Says Dylann Roof ‘Hijacked’ Confederate Battle Flag Most of us thought Haley got it when she took down the Battle Flag from South Carolina’s statehouse in 2015. That assessment may have been premature.
By Ed Kilgore
Reverend William Barber on the Political Power of Poor People “We have the Republicans racializing poverty and the Democrats running from poverty,” the Poor People’s Campaign leader says. But that can change.
By Sarah Jones
JFK’s Complicated Legacy on the Anniversary of His Assassination His tragically shortened presidency was shrouded by myth and distorted by the family dynasty.
By Ed Kilgore
Diddy Would Like to Be Excluded From Comcast’s Inclusion Narrative The broadcaster is in the middle of a Supreme Court racial-discrimination lawsuit.
By Justin Curto
vision 2020
July 25, 2019
Cory Booker Has Lost That Loving Feeling Being the candidate of love and unity hasn’t worked too well for Cory Booker. Looks like he is trying some angry aggressiveness instead.
By Ed Kilgore
The Civil-Rights Lawyer Starting a Legal Crusade Against Police Brutality Ben Crump has represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and Tamir Rice — and he may be the hardest-working attorney in the country.
By John H. Richardson
vision 2020
June 28, 2019
Will the Debate Put Mayor Pete’s Campaign Back on Track? Buttigieg had a good debate performance, and was properly contrite in addressing a recent police shooting in his city. But he has more work to do.
By Ed Kilgore
a historical spike lee joint
Apr. 16, 2019
By Halle Kiefer
historical revisionism
Apr. 9, 2019
Yes, Candace, the Southern Strategy Is Real In an egregious statement of historical revisionism, right-wing controversialist Candace Owens denies some very basic facts.
By Ed Kilgore
At Famed Civil-Rights Center, Fire Destroys a Building, But Not a Mission The Highlander Center, a longtime target of racist attacks, shows its resilience again after a white-power symbol is found at the scene of a fire.
By Sarah Jones
what’s past is prologue
Mar. 23, 2019
How Jimmy Carter’s Election Previewed Trump’s As Carter becomes the oldest ex-president, it’s useful to remember how strange and unusual his rise to the White House actually was.
By Ed Kilgore
‘Where Would I Go? This Is My Home’: Queer United Methodists’ Uncertain Future After a vote against LGBT clergy and same-sex marriage, the church faces a possible split and queer members are agonizing over whether to stay or go.
By Sarah Jones
donald trump
Feb. 7, 2019
By Adam K. Raymond
Shaun King on Relaunching The North Star and His Online Persona The controversial activist asks, “What would Frederick Douglass do?”
By Amos Barshad
george h.w. bush
Dec. 3, 2018
The Bush Family’s Struggle to Keep Up With the Conservative Movement George H.W. Bush and his sons George W. and Jeb tried to stay in step with the ever-rightward drift of the conservative movement. They failed.
By Ed Kilgore
migrant caravan
Nov. 27, 2018
Tear-Gassing Migrant Children at Protests Is Not ‘Un-American’ Children have been targeted for violence throughout U.S. history to deter their elders from protesting.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
2018 midterms
Nov. 27, 2018
Mike Espy’s Quest to Make Southern History in Mississippi’s Senate Runoff If he pulls off an upset against Cindy Hyde-Smith, Espy would be the first African-American Democrat to win a Senate seat in the former Confederacy.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Nov. 8, 2018
Democrats May Have Lost to Brian Kemp, But They Can Still Capture His Old Job The race to choose Kemp’s replacement as secretary of State appears headed for a runoff. It will be key to Georgia’s political future.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
the judicial branch
Aug. 28, 2018
With Mitch McConnell’s Help, Trump Now Has 60 Confirmed Federal Judges The Senate has confirmed the president’s nominations for federal judges across the country, under the leadership of Mitch McConnell.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
john mccain
Aug. 28, 2018
GOPers Balk at Honoring John McCain instead of Segregationist Democrat It’s not Richard B. Russell’s fellow Democrats but Republicans who are hesitant about renaming a Senate building to honor McCain.
By Ed Kilgore
john mccain
Aug. 27, 2018
Federal Building Named After Segregationist Might Be Renamed After McCain It’s time to remove the name of the genteel racist Richard Russell from the Senate’s oldest office building. Giving it McCain’s is a good pretext.
By Ed Kilgore
civil rights
Aug. 16, 2018
Conservative Christian Baker Back in Court Over a Gender-Transition Cake Jack Phillips is probably hoping to get a better answer from a Supreme Court where Brett Kavanaugh has replaced Anthony Kennedy.
By Ed Kilgore
Baker Who Refused Cake to Gay Couple Is Still Refusing Cakes Jack Phillips is suing the state of Colorado for being sanctioned after discriminating against a transgender woman.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
‘New Information’ Leads DOJ to Reopen Emmett Till Murder Case In a book released last year, the woman who had accused Till of harassing her admitted it was a lie.
By Adam K. Raymond
How We Can Get a More Equal Union Fifty years since the Kerner Commission’s landmark study of racial inequality, we face similar problems. The issue lies in how we talk about equality.
By Vanessa A. Bee
We Should Take Oprah 2020 Seriously, But Not Literally The minute Oprah Winfrey becomes a politician, she’ll lose altitude, but she’d start from lofty heights.
By Ed Kilgore
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