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More than 10 years ago, I bought a pair of pants during a visit to my hometown in Texas that I still cherish and…
Apr 26
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Apr 23
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Many of those who have since been arrested for participating in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were…
Apr 22
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I’m not a fan of so-called hate crime legislation, which generally tends to give law enforcement more resources and…
Apr 22
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As Republican legislators continue in their attempts to outdo one another in cruelty towards trans kids in their…
Apr 21
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Vanita Gupta, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division under President Obama and a long-time civil…
Apr 20
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Apr 13
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On Tuesday, Kim Potter, the long-time police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright on Sunday and the…
Apr 12
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On Monday, a medical expert testified in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin that George Floyd’s death was, as he put…
Apr 12
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The gravitational pull of Matt Gaetz’s breathtaking shittiness is so strong and overpowering that, amidst a federal…
Apr 8
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According to a single unnamed source (one possibly named Brad Parscale), Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and…
Apr 6
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On Tuesday, Republicans in Arkansas overrode fellow Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill banning…
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Apr 5
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I spent this past week blissfully disconnected from anything vaguely resembling news, hiking in the desert with my…
Apr 5
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On Monday, in a rather surprising turn of events, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed HB 1570, a…
Apr 5
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I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, but it was a Southern Baptist church full of Asians. So while we waited…
Mar 31
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When I was 21 and just out of college, I felt, like many people that age do, a little aimless and a little rootless.…
Mar 29
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In December, Fernando García, the executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, gave the incoming Biden…
Mar 26
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It can’t get any more on the nose than this: As Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was signing a sweeping anti-democratic…
Mar 25
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I remember the early days of the covid-19 pandemic in New York City well, maybe too well—the seemingly endless…