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When it comes to slavery, the past isn’t past
We aren’t just fighting the historical legacy of slavery, but also the current political system that was always meant to uphold it.
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In the debate over free speech, we need less focus on politics, more focus on the truth
No, Twitter did not infringe on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s liberty.
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You’d think debate over public education would be neutral and supported by all. But that’s never been how it works in America
Who’s in, who’s out – and are they the right kind of American?
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If ‘secularists’ are waging war on Christmas, where does that leave the Supreme Court? It said Christmas trees are secular
They actually serve Christian hegemony in America.
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Lose Roe, lose right to privacy
Abortion, birth control, Internet usage, same-sex marriage, sexual privacy and even healthcare privacy are on the line.
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The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting "life." They are fearing "race suicide."
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The Rittenhouse verdict isn’t a win for self-defense. It’s another example of white men having better rights than the rest of us
American history has plenty examples of whole classes of people that were explicitly excluded from claiming self-defense in court.
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A 150-year-old anti-Klan law is being used in lawsuit against organizers of Unite the Right
By using the Ku Klux Klan Act, or the Enforcement Act of 1871, the suit links the alt-right to a century and a half of white violence.
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Kyle Rittenhouse’s actions fit into a long history of state-supported white vigilantism in America
His defense hopes to capitalize on white panic.
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Could Texas’ abortion vigilante law sabotage the open-carry goals of gun-rights groups? Justice Kavanaugh seems worried
A bizarre twist of fate.
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White America likes to pretend antisemitism is a bug, not a feature. The history of Jews in America tells a different story
Marginalization, systemic violence and discrimination.
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What is gerrymandering and why does a democracy allow it to be used to protect white power?
A legal history of congressional district map-making.