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Civil Rights
February 27, 2015
Cristian Farias
Eric Holder Wants to Lower the Bar for Civil Rights Prosecutions. That's Trickier Than It Sounds.
February 25, 2015
Cristian Farias
Why Is It So Hard to Prove a Civil Rights Crime?
The Zimmerman case reveals the limits of the law—and foreshadows the Ferguson outcome
February 23, 2015
Cristian Farias
John Legend Made the Most Important Point at the Oscars
February 10, 2015
Cristian Farias
Another Battle Begins in Ferguson—This Time, in Federal Court
January 29, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New Republic's Legacy on Race
A historical reflection
January 19, 2015
Matthew Pratt Guterl
What Today's Civil Rights Protesters Could Learn From Josephine Baker's Iconoclasm
November 1, 2014
Brando Simeo Starkey
College Sports Aren't Like Slavery. They're Like Jim Crow.
September 14, 2014
Rebecca Traister
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Judith Shulevitz
Feminism Has Conquered the Culture. Now Comes the Hard Part
A debate on this unprecedented opportunity
March 6, 2014
Sam Kleiner
Conservatives Score a Big Win in their Long War Against the Civil Rights Division
February 5, 2014
Ted Nordhaus
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Michael Shellenberger
Environmentalists Made a Big Mistake by Focusing All Their Attention on Keystone
January 23, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
What Obama's New Task Force Should Do to Fight College Rape
October 14, 2013
Linda Kinstler
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Kevin Mahnken
Why Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s New Miniseries About Civil Rights Matters More Than Ever
August 25, 2013
Alexander M. Bickel
Civil Rights Act of 1963
July 6, 1963
August 22, 2013
Michael Kazin
The White Man Whose 'March on Washington' Speech You Should Remember Too
May 15, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
How Mitch McConnell Enabled Barack Obama
He's won numerous tactical victories. His legacy will be strategic defeat
March 26, 2013
David Fontana
No, a Sweeping Gay Marriage Ruling Won't Trigger a Backlash
March 14, 2005
Spencer Ackerman
Suspect Policy
Rendition sunshine?
July 1, 1996
Sean Wilentz
The Last Integrationist
John Lewis's American odyssey.
September 20, 1993
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Let Them Talk
Why civil liberties pose no threat to civil rights
September 13, 1993
Nicholas Lemann
The Lawyer as Hero
The enduring legacy of Thurgood Marshall
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