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Jesse Jackson
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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.
Posted inPolitics
Remembering Jesse Jackson’s Poetic Synthesis
I wrote a book about him, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t understand how he fused moral simplicity and political profundity.
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Keep Hope Alive: Reflections on Jesse Jackson
The late civil rights leader who died this week built a multiracial, multifaith coalition rooted in shared economic and democratic aspirations.
Posted inPolitics
Why Democrats Won
Donald Trump’s unpopularity, the fact that candidates met the moment in their elections, and the logic of off-year elections propelled the opposition party to a big victory.
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“Violence Loses in the Long Run”
At 81, Jesse Jackson reflects on his mentor Martin Luther King Jr., Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis, and a life spent promoting social change.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2023
Ted Kennedy’s Lonely Liberalism
Liberalism is under assault. Already having suffered decades of reputational damage after Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan battered the word into oblivion, it is now rare to ever hear it with a positive connotation. The right wing continues to equate it with moral decadence and fiscal recklessness, while the hard left of the Democratic Socialists […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Right’s Obsession with Donald Glover
The attacks on Glover illustrate and underscore the inherent pathetic and self-loathing nature of the American right.
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Strange Brew: The Right’s Pathetic Denial of Racism
Perhaps the most morbidly funny media story of the year is the spectacle of conservative crackpots falling all over themselves to attack the efforts by Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson to address implicit bias, after the horrifying incident in Philadelphia where a Starbucks employee decided that calling the cops on Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, two […]
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A Nightmare in New Hampshire
They might as well have been shouting “You will not replace us!” State authorities in New Hampshire are investigating a possible hate crime after a family reported that their 8-year-old boy was pushed by teenagers off a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him. The boy, who is biracial, was treated in […]
