Opinion | The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth

Opinion | The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth

In doing research and writing about disparities, I learned to focus on how white people benefited from systemic racism: their schools have more resources, they have less police contact, they have better access to health care. However, these hallmarks of white privilege are not freedoms that racial justice activists want to take away from whites … Read more

Opinion | What Mitch McConnell Got Right

Opinion | What Mitch McConnell Got Right

In a fair term, the Trump administration reshaped the federal judiciary. Working closely with a Republican Senate, the Trump White House appointed more than a quarter of all active judges, including three Supreme Court judges and more than four dozen appeals court judges – 245 judges total, more than other newer presidents in their first … Read more