| Mar 30, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyThe staying power of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has surprised and unsettled people across the political spectrum. Many voters who are angry about the loss of middle-class jobs and frustrated with our broken politics have rallied to Trump’s outsider...
| Mar 9, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyA man who proclaims he’d like to punch a protester in the face — as Donald Trump did recently in Nevada — isn’t fit to serve as the president of the United States. That’s the first thing that must be said. Fit to be führer of Germany in 1933, yes. But not president of...
| Mar 2, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyThe Washington, D.C. football team is scheduled to play in London later this year. But the controversy over its name has preceded it there. Two members of the British Parliament have asked the NFL to change the R*dskins’ team name — or “at the minimum, send a...
| Feb 17, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyThe day before I started high school, my father took me up to the park around the corner from our house to have “the talk.” It’s the talk black families had when Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Florida. It’s the talk we had when Michael Brown was shot and killed...
| Feb 10, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyAs the rest of the nation celebrates Black History Month this February, I’m taking a graduate level course I call “Dead White Men.” It’s actually a classic theory class that covers a number of influential thinkers, like free market theorist Adam Smith and the...
