A CNN special that aired December 8 included rare, candid moments in which Barack Obama and his former adviser David Axelrod each acknowledged that racism contributed to negative attitudes t… Read More

Kevin Drum writes that, earlier in the year, he worried that the United States was slipping into autocratic hands. Now, he's more sanguine:Republicans are in panic mode over the possibi… Read More

On the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, two white-hot Alabama high school students decided to spread love with prejudiced signs. The Robertsdale High School teenages constituted with… Read More

Scaring Fox News viewers with tales of black thuggery and anti-white violence is central to his gimmick. From the end of the Civil War to the first few decades of the 20th ce… Read More

‘A Matter of Taste’ by Thomas Nast, 15 March, 1879 On the 15th of March 1879, Thomas Nast’s cartoon, A Matter of Taste, was published. In the cartoon, criticising the suppo… Read More

Reader, kindly take your finger off that Tweet button. Before you rush off to bemoan the modern world, stop, have some unsweetened tea, and by the light of this lamp—humans made this!… Read More

Carl Jung Quotations from the “Cornwall Seminar.” Where one is identified with the collective unconscious, there is no recognition of the things which come from the unconscious… Read More

156 Fiction Books to Read in 2017  Original Post by BookBub  Be warned: Your to-be-read pile is about to get a lot longer! Publishers’ descriptions below.Mysteries and Thril… Read More