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Attorney General William Barr Goes To Bat For Trump Ahead Of Mueller Report Release
Barr said the president did not exercise his executive privilege, though “he would have been well within his rights to do so.” By Jessica...
Jay Murdock
Apr 18, 20193 min read


Courage and cowardice: Trump should be impeached just for his vicious attacks on Ilhan Omar
Trump will never back away from this campaign of racist hatred. Why should he? His supporters eagerly embrace them By Chauncey Devega |...
Jay Murdock
Apr 17, 20195 min read


Why Attorney General Barr’s Allegation Of Spying Is A Body Blow To The Very Idea Of Government
In his statement made under oath to Congress last week about spying on the Trump campaign, Attorney General Barr allied himself with one...
Jay Murdock
Apr 15, 20197 min read


Nipsey Hussle’s death laid bare the truth about gun violence
Black and brown families carry a disproportionate share of our nation’s gun-inflicted pain. Police and policing alone is ineffective and...
Jay Murdock
Apr 12, 20194 min read


White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it By Adam Serwer | The Atlantic | April...
Jay Murdock
Apr 11, 201917 min read


NBCBLK ‘Suspicious’ fires at black churches in Louisiana follow rise in hate crimes
“It would not be surprising if investigators determined that these fires were hate-based or racially motivated,” one expert on church...
Jay Murdock
Apr 10, 20193 min read


Stephen Miller takes command: Trump’s shadow chief of staff wields his dark magic
Repulsive toady genius has quietly maximized power in the White House, in pursuit of a white nationalist agenda By Amanda Marcotte |...
Jay Murdock
Apr 9, 20195 min read


LeBron James praises Kyle Korver for criticism of white privilege
The Guardian, Sports | April 8, 2019 LeBron James has praised his former teammate Kyle Korver for an essay he published on the subject of...
Jay Murdock
Apr 8, 20193 min read


William Barr’s stunt has backfired
By Jennifer Rubin | Opinion Writer The Washington Post | April 5, 2019 Members of [special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s] team have...
Jay Murdock
Apr 6, 20193 min read


‘Asthma alley’: why minorities bear a disproportionate burden of pollution inequity
Mott Haven in the South Bronx is a classic example where black and Hispanic residents experience a particularly insidious ‘environmental...
Jay Murdock
Apr 4, 20194 min read


How to Build Community in an Era of Division
These local groups support individuals and families who are economically vulnerable and socially isolated. By Ronald Brownstein | The...
Jay Murdock
Apr 3, 20199 min read


White Terrorists Give Political Cover to Other Americans’ Prejudices
The racial fears motivating white-nationalist killers are more widely shared than mainstream Americans would prefer to admit. Ibram X....
Jay Murdock
Apr 2, 20196 min read


Congress must investigate Trump. But it must also be strategic about it
Investigations should be undertaken more with a view to legislating for the future than coming to terms with the past By Lawrence Tribe |...
Jay Murdock
Apr 1, 20195 min read


The shutdown is over, but the pain for low-income families lingers
“It’s going to take a time for them to clean up the wreckage and get the money out the door,” said one housing advocate. By Suzy Khim|...
Jay Murdock
Jan 29, 20195 min read


Washington show NFL teams would rather lose than sign Colin Kaepernick
Washington were pushing for the playoffs until two of their quarterbacks went down injured. But they have ignored a perfectly solid...
Jay Murdock
Dec 7, 20185 min read


Trump takes on General Motors (guess who wins?)
The president is hammering the company for cutting US jobs – but that’s the reality of our shareholder-driven system By Robert Reich |...
Jay Murdock
Dec 3, 20184 min read


The Democrats’ White People Problem
Donald Trump likes to pit elite and non-elite white people against each other. Why do white liberals play into his trap? By Joan C....
Jay Murdock
Nov 29, 201810 min read


America has stepped away from the brink. But there is more work to do
The midterm results made it clear there is trouble ahead for the president. But will Democrats seize this opportunity? By Jill Abramson |...
Jay Murdock
Nov 7, 20184 min read


The American civil war didn’t end. And Trump is a Confederate president
His supporters hark back to an 1860s fantasy of white male dominance. But the Confederacy won’t win in the long run By Rebecca Solnit |...
Jay Murdock
Nov 6, 20189 min read


What the targeting of Trump critics reveals about America’s rotting core
The bomb scares involving Obama, the Clintons and other critics of Trump reflect a pernicious and deep rot in our system By Andrew...
Jay Murdock
Oct 30, 20184 min read
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