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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House

Democrats were wrong to think that shifting demographics alone would hand them victory. What then determines whether workers respond to economic grievances with nativism or solidarity? In a word, organization.

Jay Caspian Kang, a noted Korean American journalist, warns the precarious position of minority journalists is under new assault as the mainstream media makes its adjustments to the Trump election. He argues the mainstream media that has already begun the hiring of pro-Trump voices, will soon be jettisoning the “identity politics writers,” it hired only a few years ago. It is time, Kang says, for progressive minority writers to “start building their own shit.”

What’s happening in North Carolina is not politics as usual. It is an extraordinarily disturbing legislative coup, a flagrant effort to maintain one-party rule by rejecting democratic norms and revoking the will of the voters.

Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ's stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy.

Friedman has also referred to the recognition of Jerusalem as “the indisputable capital of the Jewish people” as a holy battle, one that will be won by those who acknowledge Jerusalem as being “the holy capital of the Jewish people—and only the Jewish people”.

The Environmental Protection Agency has finally admitted that fracking contaminates drinking water resources in its widely anticipated final report on the practice.

Austria’s far right has suffered a setback, but it would be a mistake to believe the dynamic they created is broken.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to receive daily U.S. intelligence briefings in the place of the President-elect.

At a conference of 20,000 scientists, the echoed a worry is echoed again and again: Will Trump, who has made statements on climate change and vaccines that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence, be not just anti-climate, but “anti-science”?