Opinion
This black man shouldn’t spend life in prison for trying to steal hedge clippers. By Chief Justice Bernette Johnson / The Guardian
America’s Policing System Is Broken. It’s Time to Radically Rethink Public Safety. By Josiah Bates and Karl Vick / Time
A confluence of events has created a moment for a Georgia pastor to take a Senate seat away from warring Republicans. By Paul Kane / Wash Post
A white person and a Black person vote by mail in the same state. Whose ballot is more likely to be rejected? By Jane C. Timm / NBC News
The complex history and an uncertain future of American whiteness. By Nell Irvin Painter / NBC News
Trump’s History of Racism and the Reckoning It Has Forced. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
Touting Her Experience, Susan Rice Makes Her Case For Biden’s VP Slot. By Barbara Sprunt / NPR
If corporations want to stop racism, here’s where they can start. By John W. Rogers Jr. and Charles A. Tribbett / Wash Post
Stokely Carmichael didn’t deserve Bill Clinton’s swipe during John Lewis’s funeral. By Hasan Kwame Jeffries / Wash Post
Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation. By John Lewis / NYT
Why the Black Lives Matter movement should claim the 14th Amendment. By Brando Simeo Starkey / The Undefeated
Is former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu a leader for this moment of racial reckoning? By Janell Ross / NBC News
Will Herman Cain’s Death Change Republican Views on the Virus and Masks? By Jeremy W. Peters / NYT
White Christian America Needs a Moral Awakening. By Robert P. Jones / The Atlantic
Why Cornel West is hopeful during the pandemic and anti-racism protests. By Sigal Samuel / Vox
We Should Have a Handle on This by Now.’ As Inner-City Neighborhoods See a Surge in Gun Violence. By Josiah Bates / Time
Trevor Noah Takes Down Tom Cotton’s ‘Possibly Stupidest’ Slavery Argument. By Josephine Harvey / HuffPost
“Trump Could Not Be More on the Wrong Side”: New Poll Shows Trump’s Black Lives Matter Protest Response Could Cost Him 2020. By Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair
Did protests change Americans’ views of race and policing? Yes, but it’s complicated. By David Byler / Wash Post
27 U.S. mayors: Want to address systemic racism? Start with housing. By 27 U.S. Mayors / Wash Post
John Lewis and the Danger of Gradualism. Patience Is a Dirty Word. By Ibram X. Kendi / The Atlantic
The racist effects of school reopening during the pandemic — by a teacher. By Nataliya Braginsky and Valerie Strauss / Wash Post
Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump and the bitter American truth: “We do not have a real democracy.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack. By Ari Berman / Mother Jones
Trump’s Portland Offensive Fits a Long Pattern. Trump Is Determined to Split the Country in Two. By Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic
Susan Rice Talks Watching Trump Dismantle Her Pandemic Response Unit. By Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
