I suppose it's fine to try and carve out positions that explicitly appeal to white male voters, but not if it means watering down the core values of the Democratic Party. If fighting for a higher minimum wage attracts white males, great. But if Democrats...
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There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I'd like to.
A last point on Richard Sherman, from Greg Howard, who places the reaction to Sherman in the context of American racial tropes: When you're a public figure, there are rules..
On a day where we are celebrating MLK Day with a bunch of old white men complaining about the behavior of a young, brash black man in a football game last night, it's worth reading the eminent historian Tom Sugrue on how King's words are...
Since the world is now obsessing over Santa's whiteness, or really more specifically just how racist is Megyn Kelly, it's worth noting that even if Santa is Scandinavian we can.
The increasingly common multiracial faces of America, via National Geographic. I'm sure all the old white people in Alabama who are hearing Spanish at their favorite buffet restaurants, the old.
In a story almost too good to be true, Jeremy Fugleberg of the Casper Star-Tribune chronicles a meeting between a local NAACP member and the regional leader of the Ku Klux Klan. [UPDATE BY ROB] Erik neglects to mention that Mr. Fugleberg is an esteemed...
Johnny Manziel has to serve a suspension of one whole half of football for selling his autograph. Which, whatever except that Ohio State was put on multi-year probation for a.
When we think of the Republican Party in its early years, we often think of it as a party of freedom because it opposed slavery. But that's way too simplistic.
Last month, SEK brought up the racism of The Searchers, which I argued was as racist as Birth of a Nation. I decided to rewatch the film. It had been a couple of years after all. Both of my major contentions about the film were...
Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the.
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions..