Jamelle Bouie
Science
White People Are Fine With Laws That Harm BlacksThe futility of fighting criminal justice racism with statistics.
Political Gabfest
Can Anyone Stop the War in Gaza?
Politics
The GOP’s Latino DilemmaThe Republican Party knows how to win over Latino voters. They just aren’t willing to do it.
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The Poor Don’t Need a Life CoachAmerica’s poor need bigger checks, not a “life plan.”
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National Review’s Dishonest HistoryJohn Fund thinks blacks have been fooled into supporting Democrats. That’s even more insulting than his misleading history of Jim Crow laws.
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The Terrorist Logic in Support of IsraelThis New York University scholar believes Palestinian civilians are legitimate targets because Gazans voted for Hamas.
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Conservatives Say the Poor Have It EasyA Colorado Republican was caught on video pioneering the 47 percent slur.
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Chris McDaniel Thinks Winning With Black Votes Is Somehow IllegitimateIt’s a notion that goes all the way back to the election of President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Why Mississippi’s Black Democrats Saved an Elderly White RepublicanThey saw Chris McDaniel for what he is: A classic Southern reactionary.
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A Dangerous PrecedentThe GOP and the media should think twice before they demonize a politician for defending the accused.
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The Black American Holiday Everyone Should Celebrate but Doesn’tJuneteenth isn’t just a celebration of emancipation, it’s a celebration of our commitment to make it real.
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My Advice to the RNC on How to Win Black Voters
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Cantor’s ConsequencesWhat will and won’t change now that Eric Cantor is on his way out.
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The Most Venal Man in VirginiaState Sen. Phillip Puckett just sold out his poorest constituents, with no concern for their health and well-being.
The Audio Book Club
The Audio Book Club Reads AmericanahOur critics discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel about Nigerians emigrating west.
Politics
Broken Windows Policing Kills PeopleSenseless deaths are a predictable result of cracking down on minor offenses.
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Mississippi’s Willful NeglectIt and some other red states can’t be trusted to take care of the poor.
Politics
The Case for Marijuana ReparationsThe war on weed was foolish and costly. If we can admit that, then we should also be able to admit that it’s time to make amends to those who were most harmed by those laws.
Politics
The Crisis in Black HomeownershipHow the recession turned owners into renters and obliterated black American wealth.
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Why the Halbig Decision Is Nothing for Republicans to Celebrate
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America’s Long History of Immigrant ScaremongeringConservatives claim that the young immigrants crossing the border are diseased and pose a dangerous public health risk. It’s a sad American tradition.
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Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Need LiberalsThe numbers show black voters defeated her in 2008 and will make her win in 2016.
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The Ikea IllusionIt’s terrific that Ikea and other retailers are raising their wages. But it won’t matter to the millions of Americans who can’t get to where the jobs are.
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Hillary Clinton Hasn’t Learned Any of the Lessons of IraqShe is just as hawkish as she was before the war, and if president, she would be poised to make the same mistakes again.
Weigel
Mississippi's Black Voters Should Vote for Thad Cochran
Politics
The Most Discriminatory Law in the LandIt was based on a racist stereotype of unfit black mothers. Today, family cap laws do nothing but punish the poor for being poor.
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Fool Me OncePaul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, and their fellow neocons botched Iraq. Now they want to tell you what they think. Ignore them.
Slate Picks
Some Capital EatsSlate-sters dish on their favorite restaurants in Washington, D.C.
Politics
What Morgan Freeman Doesn’t Understand About RaceHis voice is authoritative. His opinions on race and inequality are wrong.
Politics
Obamacare Is Worse Than 9/11No, it’s worse than slavery or the Holocaust. How long can the GOP afford to call Obamacare evil?