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With new anti-CRT laws, the Republicans give the impression they stand against brainwashing. But their goal is brainwashing
“Critical race theory” is 21st-century McCarthyism.
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How did Facebook’s algorithms radicalize users across the globe? And is it culpable?
Ordinary human bigotry radicalized for profit.
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Rolling Stone adds to ProPublica report showing the Trump White House was warned about potential violence on January 6
But proceed with caution
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Ray Suarez: In a browning America, the 'statuary gap'
What race is an allegorical figure?
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Why isn’t the covid pandemic over? White supremacy
The common good isn’t common. It isn’t good. It’s the enemy.
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Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?
They are never self-made.
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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.
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Creating a counter-conservatism
Make more room in the Democratic Party.
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America is growing skeptical of the Gospel of Big Business
Are tax breaks for Amazon tribute or sacrifice?
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Not your dad’s conservatives: Today’s GOP wants candidates to say how they’ll use the state to keep white people on top
See Glenn Youngkin’s vow to ban "CRT."
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New York can now celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s ideals without idolizing the slave holder himself
The City Council is taking down the memorial to him.
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How are we going to explain to Haitian kids what the US did to their parents? That democracy is a nice idea, applicable to some?
America’s insatiable paranoia over border security.