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  1. Jackie Robinson Should Remind Us of the Importance of Political Protest A portrait of the Brooklyn Dodgers' infielder Jackie Robinson in uniform (circa 1945). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2017 … Robinson’s achievement was a political victory brought about by a social activism movement populated by the Negro press, politicians, civil rights groups and many others. Continue reading
  2. No, the Coronavirus is not an “Equalizer”
    4 Apr 2020 … Experts say that the nation’s unwillingness to publicly track the virus by race could obscure a crucial underlying reality: It’s quite likely that a disproportionate number of those who die of coronavirus will be black, reports ProPublica. Continue reading
  3. The Aftermath: A Problematic ‘Victory’ Abraham Lincoln takes the oath of office as the 16th president of the United States administered by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1861. (AP Photo)
    10 Oct 2013 … Thanks to an eleventh-hour settlement the US has supposedly escaped fiscal doomsday, but historian Bernard Weisberger writes that it feels more like a stay of execution than the end of a crisis. Continue reading
  4. Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class Construction worker on scaffolding in NYC
    11 Nov 2016 … At the end of most US presidential elections, most Americans are ready to see the last of campaign ads, social media commentaries and tension-fraught news coverage. That’s even more true this year. But more than in most recent elections, we Continue reading
  5. Morning Reads: Keystone to Create Only 35 Perm Jobs; Putin’s Conservative Fans
    2 Feb 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  6. Personal Wealth: A Nation of Extremes, And a Congress, Too
    11 Nov 2015 … Wealth inequality in the United States is pervasive — so much so that it’s apparent even in Congress. Continue reading
  7. The Latino Electorate in Nine Charts
    10 Oct 2012 … Get a statistical snapshot of Hispanic America and the issues Latinos consider important when choosing a president. Continue reading
  8. Let’s Be Brazil
    6 Jun 2013 … This post first appeared in The Jewish Journal.  I have outrage envy. For nearly two weeks, more than a million citizens across Brazil have taken to the streets to protest political corruption, economic injustice, poor health care, inadequate schools, lousy Continue reading
  9. Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country? American flag
    3 Mar 2015 … Based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name. Continue reading
  10. Bernie Sanders’ Revealing Exchange With Trump’s Health Care Appointee Tom Price
    1 Jan 2017 … It has been argued with some validity that budgets are moral documents, as the priorities they outline reveal the values of the political figures who draft, debate and enact them. And if this is the case then, surely, presidential cabinets Continue reading