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Post-Roe, American women will be separate and unequal
The United States will be a crazy-quilt of abortion laws in which some women have rights and some don’t, depending on where they live.
Stop laughing at Michael Flynn
The former Trump advisor is spearheading a project to build a violent, ultra-nationalist, ultra-Christian right to take control of America.
Alex Wise interviews me
A change of pace.
Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting “life.” They are fearing “race suicide.”
Is the US ‘truly one nation’?
It feels good to think so.
Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?
Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.
The system that allowed Malcolm X’s killers to walk keeps giving white supremacy a free pass
In the decades since the assassination of Malcolm X, it might be comfortable to imagine we have traveled some way down the road of racial justice. But it’s a long road and not an easy one.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Hades is a good boy.