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Racism
January 19, 2017
Jo Livingstone
What Makes a Weed Website Racist?
A new digital publication aims to “civilize” cannabis culture. That’s a problem.
December 27, 2016
Alex Shephard
There was nothing “hostile” about the press’s response to Carl Paladino’s racist remarks about the Obamas.
November 29, 2016
Sarah Jones
Trump’s impending presidency is already stoking prejudice in public schools.
November 22, 2016
Sarah Jones
Keep calling the “alt-right” the “alt-right.”
November 17, 2016
Alex Shephard
The National Book Awards are woke.
November 14, 2016
MagazineThomas Chatterton Williams
About a Boy
Trevor Noah’s searing memoir ridicules the absurdities of racism.
November 8, 2016
Jeet Heer
Today Is Not a Day for Celebration
Even if Trump loses, America must reckon with the hatred that he exposed.
November 8, 2016
Sarah Jones
The complicated history of the suffragette movement.
November 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ann Coulter: Actually, the Nuremberg Laws were good.
October 28, 2016
Eric D. Knowles, Linda R. Tropp
The Rise of White Identity Politics
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity.
October 14, 2016
Shima Baughman, Christopher Robertson, Sunita Sah
For Fairer Courts, Address Prosecutor Bias
October 12, 2016
Donald Nieman
Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Echo of Reconstruction-era Racism
October 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Perversion of Pepe the Frog
In hijacking the amphibian character, the alt-right is defiling a great tradition of racial commentary in cartoons.
October 6, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Jesse Waters issued a classic non-apology for his offensive Chinatown episode.
October 6, 2016
Sarah Jones
Rachel Dolezal is back.
October 5, 2016
Sarah Jones
Contain your shock, but Mike Pence is wrong about institutional racism.
October 5, 2016
Sukjong Hong
How Could Anyone Think Mail-Order Brides Are Funny?
NBC’s aborted comedy about a purchased Filipina bride exposes the depths of the entertainment industry’s cultural blindness.
September 26, 2016
Nicholas D. Mirzoeff
How the Jim Crow Internet is Pushing Back Against Black Lives Matter
September 26, 2016
Anakwa Dwamena
Good news: FIFA has ended racism.
September 26, 2016
Sarah Jones
Paul LePage released his Binder Full of Drug Dealers. (Spoiler alert: They are mostly white.)

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