racism
Trump’s fascist political strategy
July 27, 2020Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.
Read moreHouse votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol
July 24, 2020The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.
Read moreAOC: ‘Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, a “fucking bitch'”
July 24, 2020In a speech heard around the world, on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez delivered a condemnation of sexism and the entire culture of which it is a part.
Read moreIconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history
July 23, 2020For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.
Read moreConfederate statues are monuments to the ‘Lost Cause’ cult of white supremacy
July 23, 2020Confederate monuments are not memorials to fallen soldiers or to victims of war: They are intentional instruments in revisionist U.S. history pushing a sympathetic view of the Confederacy.
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