Middlebury: Who Pays for Free Speech? Middlebury: Who Pays for Free Speech?
By offering Charles Murray not just a platform but also departmental sanction and a presidential introduction, Middlebury let down those students denigrated by his work.
Mar 14, 2017 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Enduring Struggle The Enduring Struggle
Frederick Douglass’s radical vision of democratic politics.
Mar 14, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Matthew Karp
This House Republican Just Endorsed a White Nationalist This House Republican Just Endorsed a White Nationalist
In lending his support to Geert Wilders, Congressman Steve King has crossed a dangerous line.
Mar 13, 2017 / John Nichols
Texas’s Redistricting Maps and Voter-ID Law Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Voters Texas’s Redistricting Maps and Voter-ID Law Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Voters
Federal courts have now found that the state’s voter-ID law and redistricting maps purposefully targeted black and Latino voters.
Mar 13, 2017 / Ari Berman
ICE Relents and Releases DREAMer Daniela Vargas ICE Relents and Releases DREAMer Daniela Vargas
Immigrant-rights advocates say that Vargas’s release is proof that resistance works.
Mar 10, 2017 / Julianne Hing
Letters From the March 27, 2017, Issue Letters From the March 27, 2017, Issue
Belafonte right on time… Unnatural selection… What are we for?… The fire last time… Snow job…
Mar 9, 2017 / Our Readers
For One Separated Couple, Trump’s Updated Muslim Ban Offers No Fixes For One Separated Couple, Trump’s Updated Muslim Ban Offers No Fixes
Basheer Othman still can’t join his wife in the United States.
Mar 7, 2017 / Julianne Hing
Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans
But we are not going to be played like this.
Mar 7, 2017 / Collier Meyerson
The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again
White House adviser Steve Bannon insists that Muslims don’t have the right “DNA” for democracy.
Mar 6, 2017 / Joan Walsh
Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump
When Obama was in the White House, the safest place for young undocumented immigrants was in the public eye. Vargas’s detention shows that’s no longer true.
Mar 2, 2017 / Julianne Hing