Tag: The Nation

  • Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry The Nation 2016-02-29 Dave Zirin Melissa Harris-Perry (You Tube) The most diverse, intellectually bracing show on network news was treated as expendable, and its host would not have it. She and her show will be sorely missed. This weekend, a show that mattered to its audience as few programs on the…

  • Visions of Obama in America’s Ghettos The Nation 2016-02-12 Camilo José Vergara “Obama es el Presidente, Obama es para todos.” Painting by Chuy Vasquez. Luis Meat Market, 42nd Place at South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 2013. (Camilo Vergara) From churches to gas stations. Documenting the murals that decorate the walls of barbershops, restaurants, butcher shops,…

  • In “Love, Anger, Madness,” Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under “Papa Doc” Duvalier.

  • Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ The Nation 2015-10-12 William Greider Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump —…

  • Trevor Noah Says He’s Not a Political Progressive. He’d Be Funnier If He Were. The Nation 2015-10-09 Katie Halper (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / Brad Barket) The new Daily Show host doesn’t have much to say, which leaves him making jokes about tramp stamps and body weight. Unlike Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah doesn’t…

  • A lawsuit is being waged against the “wrongful birth” of a black child.

  • Replacing History With Fiction in Arizona The Nation 2012-02-08 Gary Younge In 1997 black America gained a new hero when Tiger Woods putted himself into history at the US Masters. Within a few weeks, it had lost him in an unlikely fashion—to a bespoke racial identity articulated on Oprah’s couch.    Does it bother you…

  • Not-Black by Default The Nation Diary of a Mad Law Professor 2010-04-21 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University Most people who appear phenotypically “black” don’t play around when the government asks them to report their race. Last week, Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an insightful column, “Black by Choice,” about President Obama’s…

  • Black by Choice The Nation 2010-04-15 Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies Princeton University The first black president has created a definitional crisis for whiteness. President Obama created a bit of a stir in early April when he completed his Census form. In response to the question about racial identity the…