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Published Articles
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Saving Democracy Starts at the Local Level
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The Media Has a Real Thing Against VP Kamala Harris
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We Can’t Have a Repeat of Election 2016
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The Only 'Barbenheimer' Review You Need
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The Invisibility I Feared
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Has America Given Up on Its Future?
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The Supreme Court Is Profoundly Broken
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We’re Living in an Era of Political Whims
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From the Archives
The U.S. Has an Accountability Problem
What Racism Steals from Black Americans
We Should Demand More from Our Government
How Representative Summer Lee Will Get It Done
How Voters Got Dems In Array
We Have the Power to Fix Our Constitution
What Was That About the GOP Wanting Less Government?
Work Life Doesn’t Have To Be Like This
Democrats Have to Break the GOP to Win
The Actual Heirs to American Independence
Are Black Americans Really Free?
When White Men Set Standards of “Normalcy”
America's Cycle of Mourning
The Left Needs Its Own Megaphone
The Present Is Our History Now
We All Lost the Abortion War—It’s Time to Start Over
There Is No Post-COVID
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Presumption of Merit
The Threat Republicans See in Ketanji Brown Jackson
Why Do We Make Politics So Complicated?
The False Promise of Admissions
White People Know What Race Is
Does Biden Understand Black Solidarity? The Confirmation Process Will Prove It
Who Remembers the Real Martin Luther King Jr.?
We Are a Nation at War With Memory
Will My Money Anxiety Ever Go Away?
American Individualism Is Killing Us
Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Monster America Made
The American Workforce Has Had It
Everything Is On Fire
We’ve Forgotten the Meaning of Labor Day
COVID Hasn’t Changed Us Enough
If millions can’t afford roofs over their heads, the floor will fall out from under the country’s f
The great 'mystery' of Black voters actually has a simple explanation
America Is at War With Itself
White Americans feared they’d one day become victims of the monstrous capitalism they built
Is U.S. Democracy Past the Tipping Point?
We Permitted This Coup
Can America Be Governed?
A stubborn optimist
The Future of The American Experiment Is Here
The Enemy of the Enemy Isn’t Our Friend
Amy Cooper Is Just Dealing With Consequences
COVID-19 Reveals Our Crisis of Politics
Everyone’s Been Thinking About Hillary All Wrong
The Primaries Are Segregated
The Electability Myth
Shocker! We Have an All-White Dem Debate
All the Trump Scandals Are the Same Scandal
Are White Voters Ready for Impeachment?
Our Country Isn't Fixing The Gun Problem Because It's White Men Who Love Guns
Black Women Knew. Will the Nation Finally Listen?
We Can Never Forgive the Trump Administration
We’ve Learned Nothing From Election 2016
The Hypocrisy of the So-Called Meritocracy
Martin Luther King Jr.'s true, radical legacy is being whitewashed
