Politics Podcast: The Politics Of Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws
FiveThirtyEight Since January 2021, 11 states have enacted laws limiting how teachers can talk about race and racism in schools,...
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The Catch-22 Facing Black Voters At The Ballot Box
2022 Midterms Racism endemic in our political system leaves Black Americans choosing between being ignored and taken for granted. Alex...
How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics
Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images On Nov. 4, 2008, Barack Obama, then a senator from Illinois,...
Why White Voters With Racist Views Often Still Support Black Republicans
Can white voters who back a Black candidate still hold racist beliefs and views? That question has come to the...
How Democrats’ Failure To Pass A Voting Rights Bill Fits A Pattern Of Failing Voters Of Color
Before President Biden entered the White House, he had an impressive list of to-dos on his agenda, including but not...
Why Some White Evangelicals Are Rethinking Their Politics
White evangelicals are often seen as a solidly Republican voting bloc. In the 2020 election, 84 percent of them voted...
The “good old days” that never were
Will Wilkinson has a post discussing how residential zoning laws were originally instituted to exclude certain minority groups: In 1926,...
Why Biden Is Unlikely To Talk Meaningfully About Race Anytime Soon
When President Biden gave his inaugural address, he denounced domestic terrorism and white supremacy — the first president to do...
American Politics Now Has Two Big Racial Divides
There’s been a recent flurry of studies and analyses that take a deeper look at the results of the 2020...
Five Questions The Political Media Is Wrestling With In Covering America’s ‘Uncivil War’
The political media has long been both powerful and controversial — no surprise, as it essentially plays the role of...
