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Though for now boxed out of the Supreme Court’s majority, liberal justices can still influence legal arguments with dissent
The effect of the first Black female nominee.
The pandemic, not public spending, is driving inflation
Supply chain issues are global. So are rising prices.
A racist religion is a bad religion
Treating white evangelical Protestants without kid gloves.
America’s ‘war on terror’ can’t see white supremacist terror
Decent people must demand government action against it.
Democracy asks ‘the people’ to think of themselves as ‘a people’
Americans rarely do, though.
Trump’s roundabout confession to the crime
Meanwhile, the GOP is rewriting that horrible day’s history.
In mourning
About this week.
On Ukraine, the left and right parrot Putin’s propaganda
Look, Russia is the real aggressor.
The day a vice president accused ‘several million’ Americans of being fascists
Henry Wallace pulled no punches.
Whoopi Goldberg engaged a difficult conversation and misunderstood some of it. Suspending her doesn’t help
In reality, race makes no sense. So it’s no surprise that racism is inconsistent and nonsensical or that talking about it is confusing.