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The Case for Reparations

By Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

Michael Waldman Politico
The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened.

New Report Finds Black Recent Grads Hardest Hit by the Great Recession

Center for Economic and Policy Research
A report shows that while young black workers with college degrees have fared better than their less-educated peers, they have a higher unemployment rate and are more likely to find themselves in a job that does not require a degree than other recent college graduates.

Why the Rich and Powerful Can't Stand Public Broadcasters

Antony Loewenstein The Guardian
Public broadcasting is under attack for elitism and bias in the UK, US and Australia. But the critics' real agenda is clear: the expansion of corporate influence into our most trusted media.

The Republican War on Workers’ Rights

Corey Robin The New York Times
Inspired by business groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, they [the Republicans] proceeded to rewrite the rules of work, passing legislation designed to enhance the position of employers at the expense of employees.

Quick Thoughts: Vijay Prashad on India’s Parliamentary Elections

Vijay Prashad Jadaliyya
For the first time since 1984, a single party–the rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi–achieved an outright majority. Modi’s party garnered 282 seats in the Lok Sabha, while the outgoing Congress Party managed to retain a mere 44 seats. Jadaliyya asked Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and the outgoing Edward W. Said Chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut, to comment on this election...