October 30, 2025
Cover Story
Editorial Board
when Congress turns governance into a game, it’s not abstract for Black families - it’s a direct hit to their economic security.
For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When the…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
While we’re struggling for basic survival, the MAGA movement is fueling a battle that pits us against the branches of government and deepens the historic fault lines among us.
If I were a betting woman, I’d bet that trump’s wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House to make way for his gaudy…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Since the GOP’s Southern Strategy of the 1960s, the Republican Party has capitalized on white resentment of civil rights for Black people by equating government with Black people, and promoting opposition to government programs because Black people might benefit.
Welcome to the MAGA era of white grievance under Trump, a desire to return to the good old days and keep control away from melanated people.…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
So let’s stop pretending this is just a renovation. It’s desecration. The physical manifestation of a republic being hollowed out, brick by brick, truth by truth, right before our eyes.
America built its cathedral to liberty with shackled hands and broken backs. That’s not a metaphor - it’s the crime scene that started this country. The…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
the “No Kings” protesters are almost certainly united in their desire to restore the liberal-democratic environment that will afford them the opportunity to engage in a rational examination and exchange of ideas without potentially being subjected to political or legal consequences.
On October 18, liberals and some conservatives in major American cities (including where I live) and small rural towns in blue, red, and purple states participated…
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