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What Republicans really mean when they blame ‘DEI’

Referencing DEI is the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism

The Guardian - US · Feb 11, 2025

Attack, attack, attack

Trump is trying to set an immigration trap

Salon · Jun 25, 2024

The Wolves of K Street review: how lobbying swallowed Washington

Brody and Luke Mullins offer an exhaustive, telling, mesmerising chronicle of the biggest business in US politics

The Guardian - US · May 4, 2024

The Aftermath review: a younger, more liberal America? OK, Boomer

Philip Bump of the Washington Post has produced a fascinating account of demographic change and future possibilities

The Guardian - US · Feb 5, 2023

Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that's still shaping American politics

For nearly 60 years, conservatives have been trying to gut the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. As a scholar of American voting rights, I believe their long game is finally bearing fruit.

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2023

US politics’ post-shame era: how Republicans became the party of hate

Far from entering the midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, the Republican party has shown itself to be the opposite

The Guardian - US · Oct 23, 2022