And then there were 10. Fox News, in all its political wisdom, finally managed to whittle a crowded circus tent of 17 Republican presidential candidates into 10 bona fide, top-polling, first-Republican-primary-debate contenders. All men and overwhelmingly white (save a retired black neurosurgeon and a onetime wunderkind Cuban American), these self-ascribed castigators of conservatism will descend…

As we delve deeper into every minute of the infamous Sandra Bland traffic stop seen around the world, experts (as expected) are clawing into every legal nook and cranny to ask one of the most pressing questions of 2015: Exactly how many rights do you have should you see the popo’s red and blue lights…

With 2016 on the horizon, presidential candidates are all on the new policy-wonk flavor of the year: “inequality.” And they’re using it in a heated bid to win as many white votes as they can get. Interestingly enough, the cognoscenti once talked up the canyon-sized gaps between rich and poor as default markers for a…

While the nation is wrangling over the fate of a Confederate flag still flapping, high-and-mighty, outside South Carolina’s Statehouse, no one seems to have noticed that July is barely into its first full week, and already 26 people across the nation have been killed by police. That’s according to The Guardian’s authoritative “The Counted” project. While the…

Momentum is building fast as an almost unstoppable wave of outrage calls for the removal of state-sanctioned Confederate flags. The fact that treasonous rebel flags are still flying strong atop or next to government buildings 150 years after the Civil War itself is as surreal as it is, frankly, believable. The rebel jack has always…