The G.I. Bill created a prosperous middle class that was altogether too white.

Here’s hoping that his Colorado team’s stunning upset win last Saturday was only the beginning.

She almost certainly won’t be the Republican nominee. But she’s showing where Biden is vulnerable.

We do have reason to fear what comes next. But what’s happening right now is concerning enough.

It’s a reminder that conservatives’ respect for the judiciary only extends as far as the courts let them entrench their own power.

The affirmative action ruling doesn’t end the diversity debate so much as push it into new areas.

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jefferson Cowie on the deep, twisted roots of American oppression

The MPD’s violent treatment of nonwhite residents has a much longer tail than the Justice Department’s devastating report makes clear.

Campus diversity isn’t the only reason to keep the policy in place.

Daniel Penny takes his place in conservatives’ growing pantheon of violent “heroes.”

Our democratic institutions are flawed but in dire need of defense against the right’s racist and antisemitic threats.

Racists from different eras still sound a lot alike.

An ad from an outside group isn’t designed to get Black voters to give Oz a look. It’s just supposed to hurt Fetterman. And it is.

Clarence Thomas sat silent for years before he said a word. The court’s newest justice came out swinging at her first hearing.

Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock are facing off in November. Both men are Black. This does not mean—contra New York Times pundit Frank Bruni—that race isn’t a factor.

They’re often just cops by another name.

Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted racist narratives and suppressed Black history.

Black Americans largely want the same things that white people do. So why are their demands treated as extreme?

If we want to stop the anger, we need to stop the scorn.

Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.