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Following the Law Isn’t ‘Jim Crow 2.0’
The rejection of Virginia’s congressional map was required by state law, but cynics condemned it as a political power grab.
Jed Rubenfeld
How Harvard’s Reparations Plan Flopped
Four years ago, Harvard committed $100 million in part to compensate descendants of people enslaved by university’s leaders. ‘I don’t think Harvard…
Novi Zhukovsky
‘Reverse Racism’ in Employment and Admissions Is Still Racism
Federal inquiries into ‘The New York Times’ and UCLA show the Trump administration is taking anti-white discrimination seriously.
Mene Ukueberuwa
The Supreme Court Finally Ends the Racial Districting Game
A majority of the justices declared that dividing voters by race is ‘odious to a free people.’
Jed Rubenfeld
You’re Not Protesting Like Dr. King
For my uncle, protest wasn’t a moral stance alone—it was a strategy, a discipline, and a craft. Today, we’ve lost all three.
Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
Confessions of a Former Alt-Right Extremist
Years before Richard Hanania became known as a respected political commentator, he was active in extremist corners of the internet, where he voiced…
Maya Sulkin
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‘Nonviolence in a Violent Age’: Coleman Hughes Live at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta
A live conversation with Ambassador Andrew Young and acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Jonathan Eig.
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Things Worth Remembering: MLK’s Final Act of Faith
‘Somewhere I read of freedom,’ said Martin Luther King Jr. in the last speech of his life. Most of us today don’t need to read of our rights to know…
Jonathan Eig
Coleman Hughes: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker
The mainstream obituaries of the ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist have focused on his ‘controversial’ statements and support for the president. But that’s just one…
Coleman Hughes
This Land Is Not Your Land
What if someone told you that your home really belongs to the people who lived there 150 years ago? It’s happening in Canada.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: We Changed Our Minds About Climate Change
Energy independence tops existential doom; Trump’s tariffs topple a steel town; land acknowledgments run even more amok; and much more.
Rupa Subramanya
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
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