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  • Inequality
    People Over 75 Are First in Line to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19
    February 16, 2021
    | Wendi C. Thomas and Hannah Grabenstein
    The average Black person here doesn’t live that long.
  • Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America?
    February 16, 2021
    | Liz Theoharis

    Not those of poor Americans, that's for sure.

  • It Is More than a Month
    February 5, 2021
    Race has been at the core of the American past and its present.
  • Racism in America
    February 1, 2021

    Slavery is our nation’s original sin; the treatment of people of color a blot on the history of a country “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Here, a variety of Moyers conversations with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.

  • Justice
    EXTRA! BLACK MOB STORMS CAPITOL
    January 18, 2021

    A mob sporting BLM flags invaded the Capitol yesterday, breaking windows and doors to gain access to the House and the Senate chambers, the Rotunda and congressional offices. It appears that they had been summoned to Washington from around the nation by Black revolutionaries. President Trump, calling the mob’s activities “sedition,” vowed to quickly put down this violation of the greatness that is America. Sedition is defined as “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against ...

  • Letters From an American
    Democracy Needs to Find the Will to Roar
    December 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The Trump era is a fitting end to the attempt to destroy our government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
  • Fight to Vote
    Why Are So Many People Voting?
    October 31, 2020
    | Miles Rapoport
    Because they can! This is an Election 2020 Special Daily Report for Halloween, 2020.
  • Democracy & Government
    Judge Barrett’s Record: Siding With Businesses Over Workers
    October 15, 2020
    | David Dayen

    The implications of some of Barrett’s rulings are truly grave, and whether or not they slow down or derail her confirmation, they should get a full airing in the committee.

  • Letters From an American
    I Read it in the Post
    October 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Democrats have hammered home that putting Barrett on the court at this moment is an extraordinary power grab, and voters seem to agree. Turning attention away from the hearings would be useful for the Republicans when voters are on their way to the polls.

  • Letters From an American
    Rest in Power Justice Ginsburg
    September 19, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    September 18, 2020 Tonight, flowers are strewn on the steps of the Supreme Court, where “Equal Justice Under Law” is carved in stone. More than a thousand people gathered there tonight to mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died today from cancer at age 87. Justice Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1933, in an era when laws, as well as the customs they protected, treated women differently than men. ...



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