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Our Radicalized Republic

On Jan 25, 2021
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RT @svscarpino: “But what should be clear by now is that returning to pre-Trump political tactics won’t actually change much. ... Changing nothing about our tactics will only deepen extremism...” Everyone needs to read this powerful new piece by @maggiekb1 & @ameliatd. https://t.co/0ZXvCfPojy
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Can President Biden, or anyone else, overcome years of rising partisan hatred?

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On Jan 25, 2021
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RT @svscarpino: “But what should be clear by now is that returning to pre-Trump political tactics won’t actually change much. ... Changing nothing about our tactics will only deepen extremism...” Everyone needs to read this powerful new piece by @maggiekb1 & @ameliatd. https://t.co/0ZXvCfPojy
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Our Radicalized Republic

Our Radicalized Republic

Can President Biden, or anyone else, overcome years of rising partisan hatred?

Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator

Raphael Warnock and the Solitude of the Black Senator

The Georgia pastor will be just the 11th Black U.S. senator. His victory came amid an attempt to delegitimize election results — a pattern for more than a 150 years.

How The Two-Party System Obscures The Complexity Of Black Americans’ Politics

How The Two-Party System Obscures The Complexity Of Black Americans’ Politics

Graphics by Anna Wiederkehr Joe Biden has encountered a number of awkward moments with Black voters this summer. Whether telling Black voters that they “ain’t B…

Democrats Must Reach Out to Moderates in 2020 — By Waging a Vicious Class War

Democrats Must Reach Out to Moderates in 2020 — By Waging a Vicious Class War

Widespread resentment of the rich gives Democrats a major electoral advantage — but only when they appeal to the electorate’s inner Robespierre.

Blue is Black and Red is White? Affective Polarization and the Racialized Schemas of U.S. Party Coalitions

Blue is Black and Red is White? Affective Polarization and the Racialized Schemas of U.S. Party Coalitions

By Nicholas A. Valentino and Kirill Zhirkov   Affective polarization – the mutual partisan antipathy expressed by both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. – has increased dramatically…

History lessons: 17 women on Kamala Harris’ VP chances

History lessons: 17 women on Kamala Harris’ VP chances

Women have appeared on presidential tickets before — in 1984, 2008 and 2016. Is anything different this time?

Op-ed: Joe Biden Is The White Moderate Dr. King Warned Us About

Op-ed: Joe Biden Is The White Moderate Dr. King Warned Us About

Joe Biden, former U.S. Vice-President, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, shared fond memories Tuesday night of James O. Eastland, the white supremacist Mississippi senator known ...

Against Reconciliation

Against Reconciliation

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

Is It Race or Class? Darrick Hamilton Showed Bernie the Answer.

Is It Race or Class? Darrick Hamilton Showed Bernie the Answer.

How "intellectual giant" Darrick Hamilton has shaped the 2020 policy debate.

Inside the Trump campaign’s effort — and struggle — to win over Black voters in Texas

Inside the Trump campaign’s effort — and struggle — to win over Black voters in Texas

The Trump campaign has held events across the country to chip away at his broad unpopularity with Black voters and flip the narrative that he is hostile to people of color.

America’s White Saviors

America’s White Saviors

A sea change has taken place in American political life. The force driving this change is the digital era style of moral politics known as “wokeness,” a phenomenon that has become pervasive ...