Ibram X. Kendi
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Image courtesy of Chase Hall Studio Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
Americans don’t see me, or Ahmaud Arbery, running down the road—they see their fear.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being.
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CDC / Getty / The Atlantic Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus
New data from 29 states confirm the extent of the racial disparities.
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mim.girl / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What the Racial Data Show
The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are?
The coronavirus is infecting and killing Americans of all races. But there’s little public data on whether the virus is having a disproportionate impact on some communities.
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Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty Stop Blaming Young Voters for Not Turning Out for Sanders
Sanders is losing to Biden because America is excluding young voters, persistently and systemically.
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John Locher / AP Images When Will Moderates Learn Their Lesson?
If centrists can’t move past their doctrine and recognize when their candidates are unelectable, then how will Democrats ever beat Trump?
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Matt Rourke / AP Why I Fear a Moderate Democratic Nominee
Some Democrats are afraid of nominating a progressive, but a moderate may be more likely to ensure Trump’s reelection.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Other Swing Voter
No one’s paying much attention to one chunk of the electorate that could prove decisive in 2020.
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Corbis / Getty / Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock ... How to Talk About the Truth and Trump at Thanksgiving
If we are serious about bringing Americans together, the work has to start with our own families.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters Twenty-One Books to Read After Becoming
A year after the release of Michelle Obama’s acclaimed memoir, a celebration of books by black women
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Ken Cedeno / Corbis via Getty The Greatest White Privilege Is Life Itself
Like so many other black men in America, Elijah Cummings died too young.
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Russell Boyce / Reuters The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism
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Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters A Lynch Mob of One
The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Trump Is in an Abusive Relationship With America
The president says he loves America, but he has shattered it in two.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Am I an American?
President Trump’s tirade against four minority congresswomen prompts the question: Whom does he consider to be American?
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Jim Bourg / Reuters What to an American Is the Fourth of July?
Power comes before freedom, not the other way around.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP There Is No Middle Ground on Reparations
Americans who oppose reparations care more about responding to political expediency than about the emergency of inequality.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Robert Smith’s Real Gift to Morehouse
The billionaire didn’t just pay off graduates’ debts; he offered an invaluable lesson about the real nature of individual success.
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Vincent Thian / AP White Terrorists Give Political Cover to Other Americans’ Prejudices
The racial fears motivating white-nationalist killers are more widely shared than mainstream Americans would prefer to admit.
