James Baldwin in a time of riots
A century after the writer’s birth, the return of divisive racial politics has given his work renewed urgency.
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The politics of Generation Grime
British rappers such as Stormzy and Dave have ideologies forged in a time of austerity and protest.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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Ben Smith: “The New York Times hired a bunch of lunatics”
The former BuzzFeed News editor on covering Donald Trump, the lure of social media, and how to restore trust in…
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The limits of humanism
How do we reconcile our capacity for good and evil? Humanist thinking does not have all the answers.
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How to reform the US police – with Neil Gross
Why do the American police kill so many civilians?
From the NS archive: War in the streets
11 November 1988: Why the crackdown on LA’s black gangs won’t work.
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Reviewed in short: New books from Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, Hannah White, Viola Davis and JL Heilbron
His Name is George Floyd by Samuels and Olorunnipa, Held in Contempt by White, Finding Me by Davis and The…
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Blame racism, not “one bad egg” for the strip-search of a black schoolgirl
It's not just police officers — teachers were complicit too.
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Don Letts: “Black Lives Matter protests made me question if I’d been tap dancing for the man”
The film director, DJ and musician talks punk, reggae and why the youth of today can’t “out-style my generation”.
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