The Atlantic: The Ideology of the Bicycle.

"IN 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880. Coming in at just under eight hundred pages, _...Read More_

>"Who Peter Thiel is does not really matter. What matters about him is whom he connects."

>"The founders of the photo-looping app Phhhoto say Facebook strung them along with the promise of a partnership that never _...Read More_

>"The former president’s backing of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is really just an endorsement of his own tactics."

>"Nostalgia and resentment could be enough to catapult Trump back into the presidency."

The influence of the new social-justice mindset is now being felt in the American media, the Democratic Party and, most recently, businesses and schools

>"Democratic candidates in this fall’s elections are doing their best to make sure that the former president is still on the ballot."

Forty years ago, when the right wing was first ascendant in this country, the nation was introduced to some exotic characters the likes of which most of us hadn’t seen before: Jerry Falwell Sr.; Pat Robertson; Newt Gingrich; even people _...Read More_

>"What new polls reveal about American priorities"

"Activists get mad at the overly cautious politicians. Politicians get mad at the activists for asking them to do stuff that might cost them their jobs. Various coalition actors get mad that a focus on environmental racism means that some _...Read More_