Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • The Danger of a Dominant Identity The New York Times 2016-11-18 David Brooks Over the past few days we’ve seen what happens when you assign someone a single identity. Pollsters assumed that most Latinos would vote only as Latinos, and therefore against Donald Trump. But a surprising percentage voted for him. Pollsters assumed women would…

  • Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory? New Statesman 2016-11-09 Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media. As it became clear that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands,…

  • After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016 The Onion November 2012 Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.

  • What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country…

  • In An Election Defined By Race, How Do We Define Race? FiveThirtyEight 2016-11-06 Farai Chideya, Senior Writer When I was younger, I had an idea for a satire in which a group of rogue genealogists would get blood samples from racially incendiary white politicians. They’d run DNA tests on them to see if they were…

  • Behind 2016’s Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity The Interpreter The New York Times 2016-11-01 Amanda Taub Call it the crisis of whiteness. White anxiety has fueled this year’s political tumult in the West: Britain’s surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump’s unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United…

  • Trevor Noah Wasn’t Expecting Liberal Hatred The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-02 Ana Marie Cox Your memoir, “Born a Crime,” is a striking depiction of your life in South Africa both under and after apartheid. How has that experience formed your perspective on the divisions we’re seeing in America because of the election? America is…

  • How do you become “white” in America? The Correspondent September 2016 Sarah Kendzior, Flyover Country Correspondent An immigrant family looks out over the New York skyline as they arrive in the U.S. from Germany aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam. Photo by Getty Trump has retweeted white supremacist groups and has the backing of the Ku…

  • Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age The American Journal of Bioethics Volume 15, 2015 – Issue 10 pages W4-W5 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1067339 Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In 2005 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug…

  • Congress Should Tell the OMB to Stop Dividing the Country The Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #4614 on Office Of Management And Budget 2016-10-11 Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy On the first day of Congress’s recess, the Obama Administration recommended the most sweeping changes…