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Arizona’s harsh immigration statute, SB 1070, took a judicial beating last month at the hands of the Supreme Court. Of the four provisions reviewed, the Court found three unconstitutional. With several other states considering similar legislation, where does the bill go from here?

On his show Sunday, Chris spoke with the bill’s co-author, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who didn’t sound too worried (two of the stricken provisions are “relatively minor,” he said). After the years the Kansas Republican has spent championing the bill, Chris wanted to know, “Why is this the thing that animates you?”

—Zoë Schlanger

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With new data out on the fastest-whitening zip codes in America, major US cities—New York and Washington DC, especially—are experiencing cultural and electoral shifts that current policy may not be evolved enough to handle. Are we self-segregating as we get more diverse? What does balanced integration look like? On his show Sunday, Nation editor-at-large Chris Hayes asks what policies the country needs to confront urban gentrification. Columbia University architecture professor Michael Bell and Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic weigh in.

—Zoë Schlanger

On last Sunday’s episode of Up, Chris Hayes engaged in an in-depth conversation about our culture’s use of the word “hero” to describe fallen servicemen and women. His comments set off a round of discussions on the nature of our wars, who’s fighting them and whether a TV pundit should even be empowered to deny or even confer such designations. On today’s show, Hayes confronted the heated debate he set off, saying that the responses he received after the episode illustrate a key point he was attempting to make with his comments: “We have a society that on the one hand has become comfortable with war, and on the other hand wants to distance itself from it as much as possible: to outsource it to contractors, to robots and to the 2.3 million volunteer men and women who have been asked to serve for longer durations than at any time in recent history.” Watch this clip for the full discussion.

The president’s same-sex marriage endorsement has elicited generous donations from the gay and lesbian community, but as The Nation’s Richard Kim explains in this clip, “prominent gay and lesbian organizations tend to be very top-down, very rich donor–driven, and so you have a grassroots agenda that isn't being reflected in this organization.” 

—Erin Schikowski