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April 05, 2013 1:10 PM The Real Story About Black Conservatives

I hope everyone has read the latest Ta-Nehisi Coates NYT item, this one about Benjamin Carson and other Obama-era black conservatives. It's as good as you would expect it to be. It sparked a series of tweets from Jamelle Bouie...

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 18, 2013 8:58 AM Down to Slavery

So someone who claims descent from Jefferson Davis made a fool of himself at CPAC, asking why a slaveowner should apologize to a former slave “for giving him shelter and food.” (No, seriously. At least he didn’t point out that...

By Mark Kleiman

March 01, 2013 10:06 AM Trying to Answer John Roberts' Question About Racism

Chief Justice John Roberts, during arguments over the Voting Rights Act earlier in the week: Is it the government’s submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than the citizens in the North? Well, here's what the 2008...

By Seth Masket

March 01, 2013 7:48 AM The Important of Race

How salient is race? I would say the ability of the United States to go from legal segregation a half century ago to the election of a black president suggests there is enormous elasticity in the American political system, and...

By John Sides

February 28, 2013 9:16 AM Racial Polarization and the Challenge to the Voting Rights Act

There can be no doubt that the covered jurisdictions differ, as a group, from the noncovered jurisdictions in their rates of  racially polarized voting. There can also be no doubt that voting the covered jurisdictions is becoming more, not less,...

By John Sides