NASCAR, the Noose, and the Politics of Race
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On June 23, the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that Bubba Watson was not the target of a hate crime. This was just...
Two Big Losses for Trump Administration
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The US Supreme Court is wrapping up its term. And although there are five Justices now on the bench who are the appointees...
Statues and Fort Names: The Confederacy Revisited
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The civil war (1861 - 1865) has long been one of the defining tragedies of US collective memory. In this election year, statues...
Two Knees: 2020 and 2016
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In 2016, after high-profile shootings of two black men by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Charlotte, North Carolina, a quarterback for the San...
Oil and Presidential Politics
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Joseph Biden made a statement to the website Politico Monday with regard to the Keystone XL pipeline, a statement that shows that oil...
The President’s Tax Returns and the Supreme Court
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On Tuesday, May 12, the US Supreme Court held arguments on two controversies over the release of President Donald Trump's tax returns. One...
Former A-G Sessions: “I Stood Up for the Truth”
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Jefferson Sessions, who was President Donald Trump's first Attorney General (and who was fired in the wake of the November 2018 elections) is...
Bill Gates, Politics, and a Conspiracy Theory
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Bill Gates, the co-founder of tech giant Microsoft, ended his active role in that corporation in 2006 and has since devoted himself to...
The Politics of a Pandemic
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Last week, the World Health Organization officially declared that the outbreak of the Coronavirus is a "pandemic," that is, an epidemic likely to...
Race, Slavery, 1619, and 1776
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Last year The New York Times Magazine initiated a re-examination of the history and legacy of African slavery in the United States. This...
