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Farewell to America
After 12 years in the US, Gary Younge is preparing to depart – as the country’s racial frictions seem certain to spark another summer of conflict
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The Party of Andrew Jackson vs. the Party of Obama
This is an era of rapid social change, and also of historical ferment, when Americans are rethinking not only who we are, but who we were. The post-Charleston backlash against Confederate imagery is one manifestation of this. Another concurrent one is a struggle over the historic role of Andrew Jackson... By Jonathan Chait.
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Federal Court Cancels Registration Of Redskins Trademarks
A year after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deemed the term
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This Bizarre Bill Would Protect Discrimination Against Gays—and, Um, Single Mothers
Opponents of marriage equality are pushing a breathtakingly bad bill. By Mark Joseph Stern.
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The last acceptable prejudice
“This is the last acceptable public prejudice: bad jokes and silly stereotypes about people who speak differently. It plays out differently from other kinds of prejudice, of course. People do not choose their race. Religious beliefs are so deeply held that everyone knows to treat them gently. And sexual preference is now so widely seen as inherent that anti-gay prejudice is vanishingly hard to find in polite precincts. Language, in contrast, is seen as more freely chosen.” By R.L.G.
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Dr. Seuss Was a Philandering Bigot
Oh, the places you'll go when you’re a racist who cheats on your dying wife!
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New Mormon policy makes apostates of married same-sex couples, bars children from rites
Mormons who enter into same-sex unions will be considered apostates under new church policies, and their children will be barred from blessing and baptisms. By Jennifer Dobner.
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Unfollow
She was a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church. Then she started to question her faith, one tweet at a time. By Adrian Chen.
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Mr. and Mrs. B
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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This Is What They Did For Fun
The Story Of A Modern-Day Lynching. By Albert Samaha.
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Trump’s unapologetic racism breeds dangerous hysteria
Last night on Twitter, Donald Trump shared a racist meme with fake crime statistics on African Americans. By Shaun King.
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Sticking to Our Guns
The coverage of our elections has a fairy tale feel to it. Our national press pretends that they are dealing with men and women of principle, offering carefully thought-out solutions to our nation’s problems, rather than groveling servants of billionaires who finance their campaigns; and that the voters these candidates try to persuade in the primaries are well-informed and well-meaning Americans and not people who by and large get their information from Fox TV and hate radio. By Charles Simic.
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For Muslims in the U.S. military, a different U.S. than the one they swore to defend
Between Trump and social media, Muslims in the military are even more alienated than before. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff.
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8 Citadel [The Military College of South Carolina] cadets suspended after white hood photos posted to social media
After photos surfaced on social media showing Citadel cadets in white hoods and reportedly singing Christmas carols, eight cadets have been suspended from the school as an investigation continues into the photos.
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‘We will teach tolerance’
After community debate, Mount Horeb [Wisconsin] School Board approves transgender measures. By Doug Erickson.
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Armed ‘patriots’ turn protests toward Muslim Americans
They are known as "Three Percenters," followers of a movement that has rallied against gun control efforts nationwide, patrolled the U.S. border with Mexico and recently begun confronting Muslim Americans. By Reese Dunkin and Emily Schmall.
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Fear, Anger and Hatred: The Rise of Germany’s New Right
For years, a sense of disillusionment has been growing on the right. Now, the refugee crisis has magnified that frustration. Increasingly, people from the very center of society are identifying with the movement -- even as political debate coarsens and violence increases.
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Not Muslim Enough? The Malcolm X Zombie Rises Again
When those on the Left, who have historically been our loudest allies against racism and bigotry, begin to perpetuate it themselves, who remains to call it out? By Maajid Nawaz. (Oct. 30)
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The Return of the 1920s
America is again caught between nationalists longing for the glories of an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has never yet attained. By Richard Yeselson.
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In the Year of Trump, the Joke Was On Us
How the campaign's biggest laugh turned ugly in 2015. By Matt Taibbi.
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