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Gary Younge | The Nation

Gary Younge

Author Bios

Gary Younge

Columnist

Gary Younge, the Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, is the New York correspondent for the Guardian and the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South (Mississippi) and Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States (New Press). He is also a contributor to The Notion.

Articles

News and Features

Like trial of OJ Simpson and the Rodney King case, the Zimmerman trial may reveal very different visions of justice.

As in a Rorschach test, people see in him what they want to see. Why don’t we look at his record?

There may be tension but there isn’t a class war within the Republican Party, because they’re all on the same side.

The authors of Arizona’s new law want to collapse Latino identity into white American mythology.

From Newt Gingrich to Ron Paul, Republican presidential candidates have stopped speaking in code and embraced baldly racist rhetoric.

His rise and fall are instructive about the way race, sex and class operate in presidential campaigns.

It’s not surprising that  Greece’s proposed referendum elicited such outrage. Europe doesn’t work like that.

Whatever the spark, social unrest is the predictable result of conditions like poverty, discrimination and police brutality.

Racism, not multiculturalism, poses the real threat to Europe’s future.

As the massacre in Norway shows, the real threat to European democracy is not multiculturalism and Islamic militancy. It’s racism.

Blogs

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