In a piercing piece at The Guardian, Gary Younge says that as costs rise and wages remain the same, the U.S. workforce is becoming less and less enamored of the pursuit of the American dream. The final chapter of America’s Promise, a high-school textbook on American history, ends with a rallying cry to national mythology. “The…

The Guardian‘s Gary Younge breaks down why the Supreme Court was wrong to assume that racism is a nonissue in striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. He cites Paula Deen’s public relations debacle over her use of the n-word and George Zimmerman’s second-degree-murder trial as grievous examples of today’s racial climate.…