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I enjoy talking to my brother about politics because he is, for lack of a better way of putting it, far more normal than I am. He is not pas...

I've been reflecting over the past few days about why it is that BDS/anti-normalization causes such existential panic amongst diaspora J...

Donald Trump said some racist things the other day, telling a group of non-White female congresswoman to "go back" to the countrie...

We're closing the political theory term with a unit on ecologism/environmentalism. In honor of that, a roundup that includes nothing on ...

My new post for The Forward 's "Sisterhood" blog  (and my first time writing for Forward !) focuses on "intersectionality...

Jacob Levy has a truly phenomenal essay providing an old-school liberal defense of identity politics . I really cannot recommend it highly e...

Via Amp at Alas, a Blog , I see a column up by Jonathan Rauch that opposes efforts to pass expansions of employment discrimination protecti...

Adam Serwer lays out conservative allegiance to the Bender theory of discrimination , namely, that the only type of discrimination worth tal...

Sherry Gorelick, Response To Finkel & Muraskin: Focus On The Lessons , New Politics No. 43: If we build on Marx's perception, in his...

Your daily dose of civil rights and related news I wasn't planning on doing this today, but tomorrow I'm taking my girlfriend to the...

After I wrote my well-received post on Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Black Conservatism, my former history professor contacted me and asked if I...

Well, I don't give Iris Marion Young to you daily. But if I did, you'd be smarter for it. According to Young, "perspective...

About a year ago, I penned a post entitled "Taking Thomas Seriously" , about the particularly political ideology held by U.S. Supr...

The Geraldine Ferraro flap is actually old terrain in this campaign. Responding to the same charge (that Obama wouldn't be where he was...

Thank you Ann Friedman : It's high time we acknowledge that every candidate has an identity: a race, a gender, a cultural background. It...