New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history
Early this month, a single pen stroke effectively ended representative Steve Cohen’s career in Con…
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The next Voting Rights Act must outlaw gerrymandering | Jamil Smith ⊕
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The supreme court has gutted one of the strongest federal tools we had against the most effective weapon in US politics
Maps can guide us home. They show us where we are, where we have been and where …
38 days ago
The supreme court trusts America not to be racist. I don’t | Jamil Smith ⊕⊕
The Callais decision is predicated on the idea that American leaders will act justly on their own. That premise has already been proven hollow
Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, os…
49 days ago
Trump taught us to prioritize our own wallets. Now he’s paying the price | Jamil Smith ⊖
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The reckless Iran war shows up for most Americans as a number at a gas pump, not as images or moral reckoning
The airport in Las Vegas last Friday afternoon was what you might expect for a WrestleMani…
56 days ago
Hungary’s strongman lost. His ideas live on in the White House | Jamil Smith ⊕
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The United States tolerates Trump’s behavior because of our warped definition of strength
The strongest men I’ve known didn’t behave anything like Donald Trump.
They were capable of restraint, first of…
89 days ago
Six years after Breonna Taylor’s death, America is weakening the rules that could have saved her | Jamil Smith ⊖⊖
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Following Taylor’s death, the US limited no-knock warrants. But the Trump administration has quietly rescinded those limits
The night Breonna Taylor died began quietly.
She had spent the evening at hom…
3 months ago
In a Trump war, with great power comes no responsibility | Jamil Smith ⊕
When presidents ask the country to support a war, honesty is not optional
The bombs fell in our name before any of us knew. Then the president saw fit to inform us.
Legal scholars and politicians alike…
Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith ⊖⊖
By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself
The climate crisis is killing people. These deaths are measurable, documented…
Trump’s racist post about the Obamas was a wake-up call for some. Why did it take so long? | Jamil Smith ⊖⊖
The racism was not new. What was new was the inability to look past it. For a moment, at least, the blinders were off
John from New Mexico, a self-professed lifelong Republican, called into C-Span’s W…
4 months ago
What is happening in Fulton County is a warning to America | Jamil Smith ⊖⊖
The FBI raid in Georgia is not an aberration. It fits a broader playbook, with troubling historic precedents
What in the hell were FBI agents doing in an election facility in Fulton county, Georgia, l…
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