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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: How moral panics sustain immoral action
They also serve a broader purpose.
As the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial gets underway, remember this. He was lynched. That’s not overstating what happened
Three white men were clearly supremely confident of being afforded every protection by the state of Georgia’s legal apparatus.
With new anti-CRT laws, the Republicans give the impression they stand against brainwashing. But their goal is brainwashing
“Critical race theory” is 21st-century McCarthyism.
How did Facebook’s algorithms radicalize users across the globe? And is it culpable?
Ordinary human bigotry radicalized for profit.
Ray Suarez: In a browning America, the ‘statuary gap’
What race is an allegorical figure?
Why isn’t the covid pandemic over? White supremacy
The common good isn’t common. It isn’t good. It’s the enemy.
Reclaiming ‘entitlement,’ bye-bye TJ, gerrymanders, Big Biz Gospel, Haitian kids, real Colin Powell obit, plus John Stoehr’s week
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Why does a democratic republic founded in opposition to monarchy tolerate billionaires?
They are never self-made.
What is gerrymandering and why does a democracy allow it to be used to protect white power?
A legal history of congressional district map-making.