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Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson
He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.
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Adam Serwer
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February 17, 2026
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
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Adam Serwer
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December 21, 2025
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism.”
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Adam Serwer
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November 11, 2025
The Jim Crow Economy Is the True Horror in 'Sinners'
The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.
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Adam Serwer
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May 2, 2025
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil rights movement.
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Adam Serwer
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February 22, 2025
The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution
Does the text mean what it plainly says?
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Adam Serwer
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January 22, 2025
What Trump’s Kamala Harris Smear Reveals
The former president is suggesting that Harris became Black only when it was obvious that being Black conferred social advantage.
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Adam Serwer
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August 2, 2024
The Supreme Court Fools Itself
The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.
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Adam Serwer
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July 24, 2024
The Conservative Censorship Campaign Reaches Its Natural Conclusion
Some states are adopting a cartoon version of the past into their curricula.
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Adam Serwer
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September 13, 2023
How Could ‘Freedmen’ Be a Race-Neutral Term?
An opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas exposed the limits of originalism.
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Adam Serwer
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July 7, 2023
The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
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Adam Serwer
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May 18, 2022
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Still Worrying about The Civil War
John Kelly's statement about the Civil War is not surprising, but they are a reminder that we should still be worrying about the Civil War.
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Adam I. P. Smith
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Adam I. P. Smith: Historian
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November 2, 2017
‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument
Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.
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George Thomas
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November 2, 2020
