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Opinion | No, It Wasn’t Just Racism
This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Many progressives believe that economic anxiety had…
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Opinion | What Makes Us All Radically Equal
Around New Year’s 2017, a community organizer named Chris Lambert leased a soon-to-be-empty school building for $1 in one of Detroit’s poorer African-American neighborhoods. The…
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Baratunde Thurston’s Work Diary: At the Intersection of Tech, Race and Society
Since publishing “How to Be Black,” his best-selling 2012 satirical memoir about black identity in America, Baratunde Thurston has built himself into a one-man multimedia…
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Opinion | What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like Me’?
It’s a formula that we turn to again and again to affirm the value of inclusion, especially in the realm of popular culture: the importance…
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Opinion | The Long History of the El Paso Attack
In the cities and towns of California, Colorado, Arizona and other Western states, there are countless highways of memory leading back to El Paso. That…
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Opinion | The Ideology of Hate and How to Fight It
Many of today’s mass murderers write manifestoes. They are not killing only because they’ve been psychologically damaged by trauma. They’re not killing only because they…
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Fan the Flames of Race-Based Terrorism?
If I learned anything from 25 years in the F.B.I., including a stint as head of counterintelligence, it was to trust my gut when I…
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Trump Lashes Out at Al Sharpton, Saying He ‘Hates Whites’
WASHINGTON — President Trump, after a weekend spent assailing a leading African-American congressman from Baltimore, widened his war on critics of color on Monday morning…
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Opinion | For Spewing Hate, Trump Should Quit, a Priest Tells Parishioners
I stood in the back of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, where I was a parishioner for nearly 20 years, and…
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Opinion | Lincoln Would Not Recognize His Own Party
In 2012, I took part in the Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, an annual trip to Alabama led by Representative John Lewis. On a Sunday afternoon…
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Opinion | Denying Racism Supports It
When did we arrive at the point where applying the words racist and racism were more radioactive than actually doing and saying racist things and…
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‘Go Back Where You Came From,’ Georgia Lawmaker Says She Was Told
A black member of Georgia’s House of Representatives said she had been the target of verbal harassment and had been told “go back where you…
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The N.Y.C. Roots of Trump and ‘Go Back Where You Came From’
In October of 1973, the federal government charged the Trump Management Corporation with discrimination against African Americans seeking apartments in the 39 buildings the firm…
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