Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer? Can Jeff Sessions Provide Justice for Heather Heyer?
Sessions’s perverted sense of justice continues to undermine civil rights, not protect them.
Aug 15, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy
Where we have (mostly) condemned slavery, we as a country have refused to condemn its defenders.
Aug 15, 2017 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Fighting White Supremacy Means Owning Up to American History Fighting White Supremacy Means Owning Up to American History
Trump’s failure to swiftly condemn racist violence is appalling. But he’s right that it’s always been part of this country’s story.
Aug 14, 2017 / Collier Meyerson
Here’s What You Can Do After Charlottesville Here’s What You Can Do After Charlottesville
Join the continuing fight against the hatred on display this weekend and too often throughout our nation’s history
Aug 14, 2017 / NationAction
The Charlottesville Syllabus The Charlottesville Syllabus
Studying hate is critical to countering it.
Aug 14, 2017 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg
Trump Blamed the Violence in Charlottesville ‘On Many Sides.’ Republicans Must Reject That. Trump Blamed the Violence in Charlottesville ‘On Many Sides.’ Republicans Must Reject That.
Members of the GOP have a duty to condemn a Republican president who had done everything in his power to divide the country.
Aug 13, 2017 / John Nichols
When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean? When White People Say They Have My Back, What Does That Actually Mean?
For a few weeks in Portland, I got a glimpse of what real solidarity looks like.
Jul 31, 2017 / Donnell Alexander
Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian
And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.
Jun 22, 2017 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Systemic Racism Couldn’t Care Less About Your Respectability Politics Systemic Racism Couldn’t Care Less About Your Respectability Politics
What could not save Philando Castile, Jordan Edwards or Richard Collins III is the same thing that I have been told would save me, a young black college student: respectability.
Jun 16, 2017 / StudentNation / Shekinah Mondoua
Even LeBron James Can’t Escape This Toxic Wave of Racist Hatred Even LeBron James Can’t Escape This Toxic Wave of Racist Hatred
Athletes have long been the targets of white supremacists—but they are also part of the resistance.
Jun 1, 2017 / Dave Zirin