The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power

Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers

53206, a heavily African American neighborhood north of downtown Milwaukee, suffers from all manner of ills—not least of which are the myths of criminality that continue to surround it.

After a Cherokee citizen on the St. Louis Cardinals called them out, the Braves responded with hollow P.R. jargon.

The GOP's anti-urban agenda takes many forms, but it always tracks back to wealthy whites' fear of losing power.

Trump's anti-immigration policies were introduced with talk of "rapists" and "murderers," but that was just a pretext to come after the rest.

Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" pushes back on the assimilationist myths of Asian American entertainment.

School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?

His administration hides an old, racist message behind its new, "merit-based" immigration policy.

He thinks "The Hunt" is racist. Elijah Cummings, too. That tells us a lot about the president's sinister worldview.

History shows that the expansion of the American security state never benefits racial and religious minorities.

It's not about immigration. It's about race.

It's easy to see why he's attacking politicians of color. Why are Beltway pundits so blind to it?

Pundits say Trump's tweets about "The Squad" are part of a master plan. They're wrong.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

In a rebuttal to Mitch McConnell—and possibly Joe Biden—Ta-Nehisi Coates helped House Democrats start a conversation on slavery, racism, and reparations.

Turns out the last refuge of a scoundrel isn't patriotism—it's racism.

A Republican "autopsy" of 2018 losses in Wisconsin shows a party struggling to reconcile racist policies with midwestern politics.

The far right fears nothing more than public humiliation.

As capitalism starts to crumble, hate finds a familiar foothold.