Issue: 846
Dec 17, 2020
Color of Law
This Is How Trump Is Destroying the Republican Party
Executive Editor
The dog whistle of the Southern Strategy morphed into a loud “alt-right” bullhorn of extremism, and the GOP “big tent” coalition became a white sheet providing cover for Charlottesville neo-Nazis.
Donald Trump has remade the Republican Party in his own image. Under his mismanagement and ineptitude, the GOP has become the party of corruption and plunder,…
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Cover Story
The Ongoing Political Education of Joe Biden
Columnist
The question which remains, however, is whether he has sufficiently learned his lesson that politics is about addition, not subtraction.
Joe Biden has promised that his family would not have “any involvement with any foreign government at all” while he is in the White House. He…
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Guest Commentary
Curing America’s Vaccine Paranoia
Guest Commentator
The pandemic won’t end until we overcome our fear and loathing of scientific remedies and achieve “herd immunity”—but of the kind that is possible through mass vaccinations, not inaction.
The end is in sight, we are told. The cavalry has arrived in the form of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19 on the verge of…
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Commentary
The Biden Cabinet – Mainstream, Moderate, Middling
Editorial Board
Black people are always waiting, always being cautioned to be patient, always being told that it is not yet time for our concerns to be addressed.
I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden began to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we’ve seen it. But I…
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Commentary
The CROWN ACT: Black Hair Matters Too
Editorial Board
A Black girl manages to climb the wall only to discover she is likely to be crushed no matter what she has done to prepare for adulthood.
When I Feel Her Jump Up and Dance I Hear the Music, My God I’m Talking About My Nappy Hair! Lucille Clifton, “Homage to My Hair”…
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View from the Battlefield
U.S. Senate Flies in Face Of One Person, One Vote Principle – Solidarity America
Columnist
Wyoming, with a population of 549,914, has two senators, each with one vote in the “upper house,” while California, with a population of 39,780,000, also gets two senators, each with one vote in the U.S. Senate.
City’s top cops are going through the grinder. They are under heavy criticism; some are getting their pink slips. We saw a similar phenomenon when urban…
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View from the Battlefield
The Revolving Brass – Movement for Black lives turns up the heat on police chiefs
Editorial Board
The demands have not been significantly different over the last 50 years. Stop the occupation. Stop the profiling. Stop the killing.
City’s top cops are going through the grinder. They are under heavy criticism; some are getting their pink slips. We saw a similar phenomenon when urban…
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