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It was another par for the course night of nonsense on Hardball Tuesday, featuring MSNBC host Chris Matthews waxing-poetic about past presidents providing leadership in challenging times compared to Donald Trump. His panelists then suggested his rhetoric led …

Austin Sarat, Amherst College Fresh evidence of the nastiness and divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election emerges every day. President Trump has let loose a storm of invective over Twitter about various African American public figures and about the c…

This brief is part of a series on structural racism in the United States. Authors note: CAP uses Black and African American interchangeably throughout many of our products. We chose to capitalize Black in order to reflect that we are discussing a group of pe…

Jon Voight continues to be one of Donald Trump’s staunchest and outspoken supporters. In a bizarre new video, the actor argues that the president can’t possibly be a racist, because racism was “solved long ago.” Voight occassionall shares political videos on…

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In popular discourse, white nationalists are often portrayed as super-patriots people who worship America and all it stands for. But the reality couldn't be further from the truth. Take the instance of white nationalist terrorism in El Paso over the weekend.…

As I read about the Saturday’s mass shootings—at least one committed by a white supremacist—I came upon an article that began with this image: Trump stands at a microphone, facing the camera, in mid sentence. Just above him and in nearly the same proportions…

In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will tr…

Washington Was Abraham Lincoln a hero? How do we memorialize Confederate soldiers, or should we? Where do we draw the line between remembering the problematic parts of our past, and celebrating them?  Almost two dozen teachers from across the country spent …

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that unde…