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As the U.S. turns 250, this historian has blunt advice: ‘America has to grow up’

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he’s feeling rageful. He opens his new book, ‘America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries,’ bluntly,...

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Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it

The supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is...

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The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy

Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In...

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‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race

She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke.’ As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll...

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Why Trump’s obsession with Obama is even more twisted than you think

Rome didn’t fall in a day. It collapsed over time, hollowed out by greed, distraction, corruption and ego. If America falls, it won’t be from war, disease or even an insurrection. It will be because...

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‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class

Trump’s second election to the presidency sparked soul-searching among Democrats about why the party has continued to lose a range of traditional Democratic constituencies, especially voters without college degrees.

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The insidious doublespeak of Trump’s freedom of ‘choice’

Freedom of choice is a venerable American value. Donald Trump’s attachment to it is, however, highly selective. Over the first four months of his administration, Trump has been eagerly promoting the expansion of choice in...

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Trump is making America a declining power

In his first 100 days back in the White House, Donald Trump has asserted executive power as brazenly as any president in American history. Yet America’s power in the world has sharply declined—not in some...

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The U.S. left Vietnam 50 years ago today; the media hasn’t learned its lesson

The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about U.S. media coverage of the war...

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