One Lump of Racism, or Two, With Your Tea? One Lump of Racism, or Two, With Your Tea?
GOP, Tea Partisans should honor Reagan, who said: "There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country."
Mar 25, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
Is this the Birth of a Nation? Is this the Birth of a Nation?
Tea party actions are an act of sedition not just racism.
Mar 23, 2010 / The Notion / Melissa Harris-Perry
Health Reform Foes Scream N-Word at Civil Rights Icon Health Reform Foes Scream N-Word at Civil Rights Icon
"I haven't heard anything like this in 40, 45 years," says Congressman John Lewis. "Since the march to Selma, really."
Mar 20, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols
A Right to Life for the Living A Right to Life for the Living
African-American children face threats to their survival, and African-American women are confronted with challenges to their capacity to parent healthy children. But shaming misinf...
Mar 18, 2010 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry
Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net Snipping at Immigrants’ Safety Net
In search of a trifling 1.5 percent bite to take out of California's $20 billion budget gap, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a cruel and short-sighted cut in public assista...
Feb 22, 2010 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Justice at Last? Justice at Last?
Justice may finally be imaginable for Edna Glover and her family. The charred remains of her son Henry were discovered in the burnt hulk of a car on a levee overlooking the Mississ...
Feb 13, 2010 / The Notion / Esther Kaplan
Exchange: Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn on the Hispanic Crime Rate Exchange: Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn on the Hispanic Crime Rate
How groundbreaking is research showing that Hispanics have a crime rate comparable to white Americans? Katha Pollitt and Alexander Cockburn debate.
Feb 12, 2010 / Column / Alexander Cockburn and Katha Pollitt
The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine The Hero of the Orange Revolution Poisons Ukraine
No politician has ever suffered a more humiliating rejection than the former leader of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its current sitting president, Viktor Yushchenko.
Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship Ron Unz, Latinos, Liberals, and Scholarship
I was not surprised by "HisPANIC: the Myth of Immigrant Crime," Ron Unz's article in The American Conservative showing that Latinos in the US have a crime rate no higher...
Feb 11, 2010 / Blog / Katha Pollitt
RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card RNC’s Steele Decides It Is O.K. to Play the Race Card
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele used to be able to muster a lot of disdain for political players who suggested that criticism of them might be racially motiva...
Feb 10, 2010 / Blog / John Nichols