Good Playlist: Introduction to American politics ▶️
97 minutes of power, politics, and democracy.
Martin Luther King Jr. was right. Racism and opposition to democracy are linked, our research finds.
Americans who don’t think institutional racism is a problem are more likely to believe that Jan. 6 was a protest, not an insurrection, and that Donald Trump won the 2020 election.
Would the Founding Fathers support critical race theory?
Studying their writings — and other canonical documents in U.S. history — reveals how deeply racism is built into the nation’s structure
Here’s what Martin Luther King Jr. would say to Sen. Tom Cotton about American history
King called for a “multiracial patriotism.” Here’s what it looks like.
Why Trump’s new Commission on Unalienable Rights is likely to upset the human rights community
Here’s the problem: Any group with any ideology can use the resonant language of rights to push its own agenda.
Welcome to the latest installment of the American debate over what ‘all men are created equal’ means
Welcome back to The Monkey Cage’s weekly presentation of Founding Principles,
Yes, in the U.S., the people can reject a president — if they’re sure he’s a tyrant
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