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How the GOP’s Gerrymandering in Texas Backfired
A three-judge federal court just threw out a Republican redistricting map that would get the GOP more House seats. But will the Supreme Court reverse…
Jed Rubenfeld
Did Trump Win Over Black Men or Did the Democrats Lose Them? with Astead Herndon
While the media remains puzzled by American voters—especially young black men—shifting to the right, the new editorial director of ‘Vox’ has spent his…
Coleman Hughes
1HR 1M
Mamdani and the New Racism
Anti-Jewish libels are a social technology reshaping everything around us.
Adam Louis-Klein
The ‘Great Awokening’ and the Death of Nuance with Thomas Chatterton Williams
The social commentator on how America’s racial optimism gave way to moral panic.
Coleman Hughes
42M
Is the Supreme Court About to Reject Racial Redistricting?
And can Colorado psychologists help kids embrace their birth sex? Jed Rubenfeld breaks it down.
Jed Rubenfeld
Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So
Science writer Nicholas Wade on some of the most controversial territory in modern science.
Coleman Hughes
59M
‘Hate Crime’ School Superintendent Is Indicted for Fraud
Devon Horton, who unleashed the unfounded vilification of two white students in Evanston, Illinois, allegedly steered school contracts to friends and…
Frannie Block
The History of Slavery Should Not Be Partisan
The president wants to stop talking about ‘how bad slavery was.’ But if we want to heal racial divisions, we need more facts—not fewer.
Coleman Hughes
The Constitution Can’t Save Us. Only We Can.
Without a proper national story, our nation, as much an idea as a place, is in mortal danger. Here’s the story I’d tell.
Akhil Reed Amar
Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston
The analyst has spent years covering politics—especially the right—for liberal audiences. She shares why she thinks politics isn’t representing the…
Coleman Hughes
1HR 20M
Understanding the Black Conservative Vote with Janiyah Thomas
The MAGA insider shares her insights about law and order, media bias, and the Trump administration’s approach to the black community.
Coleman Hughes
31M
Coleman Hughes: Demand Nonviolence
Nonviolence is not the default instinct of human beings. Yet as Martin Luther King Jr. showed, it has a far better chance of changing minds than…
Coleman Hughes
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