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Brad and Stacy Briscoe filed a complaint that led to people overflowing a school board meeting at the urging of a preacher.

Three more ways we are splitting apart.

There are long-term trends for both parties to be happy about.

“What perhaps looks like collective derangement to many outside the party ranks is really just raw political calculation.”

Social trust cannot be achieved without working through the long-standing resentments of those populist masses who perceive themselves as the ‘deplorables’ of the elite.

Ethnonationalist Trump supporters want to return to a past when white men saw themselves as the core of America and minorities and women "knew their place." Because doing so requires the upending of the social order, many are prepared to pursue extreme measures, including racial violence and insurrection. What makes their actions all the more dangerous is a self-righteous belief — reinforced by the president, the Republican Party, and right-wing conspiracy peddlers — that they are on the co...

Historian David Roediger on the choice facing white Americans: Social democracy, or follow Trump into the abyss February 1, 2021 11:10AM (UTC) A group of pro-Trump protesters raise a giant America Flag on the West grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol earlier, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nations capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Bidens Elect...

The first National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda S. C. Gorman ’20 will recite an original poem at the Super Bowl LV pre-show on Feb. 7, following a streak of success that led her to the nation’s Capitol to perform at President Joe Bidens inauguration last week. Since she performed her inaugural poem, ‘The Hill We Climb,’ Gorman’s three books — “The Hill We Climb: Poems,” “Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem,” and “The Hill We Climb: An Inau...

How racism, grievance, resentment and the fear of diminished status came together to fuel violence and mayhem on Jan. 6.