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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor considers the meaning of a new opinion poll that shows racism has a tighter grip in the U.S. compared to four years ago. A Republican supporter at a rally for Romney and Ryan A RECENT poll that found 51 percent of people in...

That's a pretty ambitious subtitle, but we're not going to get to the deconstruction project until the talking points, we should warn everyone up front. And we could never hope to deconstruct all of the GOP's absurdities in one column, so we'll be focusing...

Remarks as prepared for delivery: In the spring of 1971, I met a girl. The first time I saw her, we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses. Wore no makeup. And she exuded this strength...

Bob Inglis is a rare kind of Republican. A former South Carolina congressman turned climate hawk, Inglis has dedicated his political retirement to convincing fellow conservatives that there’s no tension between accepting the reality of climate change...

In 1933, after speaking out against the rise of fascism in Germany, Albert Einstein was chastised by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, from which he had pre-emptively resigned. His fellow physicist Max von Laue spoke out in his defense, but also cautioned...