The inner Nixon
“The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they’re still spewing bile…” Author: Robert C. Koehler Published in:...
“The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they’re still spewing bile…” Author: Robert C. Koehler Published in:...
“Aaron Campbell was young, black, unarmed, and suffered from mental illness, exacerbated by his brother’s death that day…” Author: Tom...
“Reparations for slavery? Upending militarism and waging peace? Taking climate change seriously? Getting carbon out of the atmosphere and fossil...
“Some of my best friends are colored. All of them are, actually. And so I introduce you to Lowell Thompson,...
“Every year I ask myself questions about the shameful exploitation of Martin Luther King Jr.–why do Americans love to disgrace...
“When I started volunteering at a youth detention center, whose incarcerated population was entirely African American and Latino, I was...
“Now comes the mid-term elections. Perhaps what is most astonishing for me, as both an anthropologist and educator, is the...
“In Illinois, as in all the rest of the states, it’s legal to carry a concealed handgun, unless you’re at...
“From calling Mexicans rapists and animals to calling the one African American at one of his rallies “my African American,”...
“Such gentle abhorrence! It almost doesn’t seem like racism. “But they’re also not people that would easily assimilate into the...
“Perhaps the best political news of the Trump era has been the emergence of sanctuary cities — city governments valuing...
“The condemnation of Trump’s remarks on immigration has been swift and widespread. Most of the denunciations cast his ideas as...
“America serves up its news in a cauldron from hell, or so it sometimes seems. The fragments are all simmering...
“Years ago, I visited our state’s former black mental hospital and fell into conversation with a witty, friendly, black psychiatrist.He...
““I wasn’t trying to offend anyone.” This seriously has to be among the most ludicrous cop-outs of all time. These...