I studied with the late Harvard professor who had a nuanced understanding of class and race in America.
George Wallace
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“Repeat After Me: ‘I Am Somebody’”
Jesse Jackson was furious over injustice. He was also full of hope. His funeral was a reminder that the two were never meant to be separated.
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Secretary Kennedy Is My Cousin. He Sounds More Like Roy Cohn than His Late Father
Politicians aren’t saints, including my slain uncles, but they all belonged to a time when it mattered to rise above division, find unity in tragedy, and celebrate moral courage.
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Elon Musk’s America Party: Lessons from History
We’ve had a lot of parties with America in the name. They’ve been, um, problematic.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Looming Supreme Court Nullification Crisis
The precedent-smashing, highly political Roberts Court is likely to trigger outright defiance by the left and right. Just look at Alabama’s failure to comply with a recent Court ruling.
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Does Liz Cheney Have a Future?
Despite the admiration she’s earned for her courage and resolve, Cheney doesn’t have a lot of ways to bring down Trump—except maybe one.
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Andrew Yang’s Road Not Taken
If the puckish former presidential candidate wants to own the libs or stay semi-famous, there was a better way to go.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Mainstream Media, Stop the Free Publicity for Killers
You know, we really don’t need to know his name. It is long past time for American print, broadcast and cable entities to agree to implement a firm policy of not naming the perpetrators of mass murder similar to the modern-era St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Parkland, Florida. Giving free publicly to these natural-born killers […]
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Sour Home Alabama: Roy Moore Remains the Odds-on Favorite to Be the State’s Next Senator
It doesn’t matter how many women come forward. It doesn’t matter how many Republicans say he should pull out of the race. It doesn’t matter how horrified the country as a whole is over the allegations. Roy Moore will not drop out of the special US Senate election scheduled to take place on December 12 […]
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Ed Gillespie Spits on Heather Heyer’s Grave
Has he put out an ad tying Ralph Northam to Sayfullo Saipov yet? After this Tuesday, win or lose, Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie will go down in history as one of the worst race-baiting American politicians of the early-21st century, a George Wallace for the emoji age. Gillespie’s white-is-right campaign is, shall we […]
