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Yesterday on the fourth of July many celebrated US history, or at least part of it, while others were thinking about the many parts we are inclined to ignore. We are a country deeply divided in the way we look at our history. There are some Americans...

By Jordan Luftig May 31, 2017 Halfway through the event “From Domination to Prosperity: Building an Economy Where We All Belong,” john powell, the director of the Haas Institute, asked Sabeel Rahman and fellow panelists a question that went to the...

March 7, 2017 Barely one month into the new administration and President Trump has already demonstrated he is willing to make good on some of his most dangerous campaign promises. Immigration raids from Los Angeles to Atlanta, coupled with a...

Our society is undergoing a profound shift. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, many of our foundational values and assumptions about our democracy are being called into question. Our core institutions and norms are under attack and in need of...

December 15, 2016 By Richard Rothstein A bill introduced in the New York City Council proposes to establish “an office of school diversity within the human rights commission dedicated to studying the prevalence and causes of racial segregation in...

December 14, 2016 The great state of California is known for many things: its sublime national parks, stunning beaches, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, world-class public universities and dominant professional sports teams. And as the greater portion...

December 5, 2012 President-elect Donald Trump proposes to nominate Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new requirement that cities and suburbs...

Image courtesy of Nadia Barhoum/AlJazeera [Image Description: Four refugees, including a mother holding a child, by the shore in Chios, Greece] I spent two weeks on Chios volunteering and working with refugees who languish in despair and often...

My, our, disagreement with Trump is in fact rooted in his support for oppression against people that he and his supporters see as other, and against their denial for their humanity and their right to exist.

November 19, 2016 [Lead photo credit: Mathias Wasick, Creative Commons License via Flickr] Where did the term “Alt-right” come from and how did it get into popular use? It turns out “Alt-right” was a recent invention, poking its head into social...

November 16 is International Day of Tolerance. On September 1, 1995 the Declaration of Principles and Follow-up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year of Tolerance urgently encouraged member states, “not to fail upon the intellectual and moral...

Americans head to the polls today in what is likely the most important and consequential election in more than a generation, and certainly the most fraught since 1968, which followed the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and...