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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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Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison and the sensibility of freedom
A 76-year-old essay teaches us how to be free.
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In the controversy over ‘race’ in public education, journalists can’t cover the story properly by amplifying white voices only
That Black people are invisible from the public education debate shows just how intellectually impoverished the conversation is.
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Americans are calling Build Back Better progressive. It's actually moderate and pro-business
The Biden agenda is common sense.
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Throw Veterans Day away
Vonnegut was right. Armistice Day was better.
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Beware of ‘trickle-down equality’
The same magical nonsense as trickle-down economics.
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Whiteness is working hard to vindicate Kyle Rittenhouse
Please don’t pity him.
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John Eastman’s manual for state violence
War games often reveal more about the players than they do about the future, and this exercise is no exception.
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Political violence is always already normal. The question is how much do we celebrate it? Paul Gosar has a suggestion
Someone somewhere must be punished.
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Has the press corps learned nothing?
Journalism, when done right, should change a person.
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It’s time to overthrow the gerontocracy
There’s a reason we never talk about these things out loud: the counterattacks and accusations seem devastating.
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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.